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breast brown mixed with white; rest of underparts dull white, the 

 feathers lined with brown; primaries dark brown marked with 

 white on the outer webs; tail dark brown, showing an indistinct 

 band of white on the under surface; bill horn-color. 

 Length, 8; wing, 5.50; tail, 3; tarsus, 1.25; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Glaucidium Boie. 

 Glaucidium Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 976. 



Glaucidium siju (D'Orb.). 



Noctua siju D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 33 (1840).— 

 GuNDL. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 318 (1857). 



Athene siju Gray, Gen. Bds. L P- 25 (1844).— Cass. Cat. Strig. Phila. 

 Mus. p. 13. 



Nyctale siju Bp. Consp. L p. 54 (1850).— Strickl. Orn. Sjn. p. 177. 



Strix havanensis Licht. Mus. Berol. unde. 



Glaucidium hava?iense Kaup, Contr. Orn. p. 103 (1852). 



Glaucidium siju Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 59— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860).— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 226 

 (1865).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 42 (1869).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1S71, 

 p. 375.— RiDGW. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1873, p. 65.— ScL. & Salv. 

 Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 117 (1873).— Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 59; ib. 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 193 (1875).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 21 

 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Very small. Top of head pale brown, the feathers delicately 

 dotted with dull white; face dull white mixed with brownish ; throat 

 dull white, shading into mixed light brown and white on the breast; 

 underparts white, the feathers streaked with dark brown; thighs 

 rufous brown; under tail-coverts white; primaries dark brown, 

 dotted and blotched with white, heaviest on the basal portions ; back 

 and wing-coverts dull brown, mottled with pale brown; upper sur- 

 face of tail-feathers dark brown, narrowly banded with brownish 

 white ; bill pale. 



A female in my collection has the entire upper surface reddish 

 brown, with the feathers on the head unspotted. 

 Length, 7; wing, 4; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .75; bill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Speotyto Gloger. 



Speotyto Gloger, Handb. Nalurg. p. 226, 1842. 



