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CROTOPHAGA ANI Linnaeus 

 Ani 



Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 105 (Jamaica). 



Three were obtained at Gibara, Cuba, on February 21, and one 

 on the Rio Fabrico opposite Cayo Grande de Moa on March 8. 

 Other skins were forwarded from near Port au Prince on March 

 28, Grande Cayemite Island on April 12, lie a Vache on April 27 

 and 30, and Navassa Island on May 10. The specimen from Navassa 

 seems to indicate that this curious bird is found there regularly, 

 since there is an old skin in the National Museum obtained on this 

 island December 3, 1890, by J. F. R. Dufour. 



Order STRIGIFORMES 

 Family TYTONIDAE, Barn Owls 



TYTO GLAUCOPS (Kanp) 

 HiSPANioLAN Barn Owl 



Strix glaucops Kaup, Jardine's Contr, Ornith., 1852, p. 118 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



A female was taken in a cave 10 miles east of Baraderes on April 

 6. This bird is in the brownish phase of plumage. 



Family STRIGIDAE, Typical Owls 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA TROGLODYTES Wetmore and Swales 

 HISPANIOLAN BURIiOWING OwL 



Speotyto cunicularia troglodytes Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 155, Mar. 7, 1931, p. 239 (Haiti). 



Male and female were taken at Thomazeau on April 1 by Lee 

 Parish. 



Order CAPRIMULGIFORMES 



Suborcier Caprimulgi 

 Family CAPRIMULGIDAE, Goatsuckers 



ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS (Gmelin) 



Chuck- will's-widow 



Caprimulgus carolinensis Gmeon, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 1028 (South 

 Carolina). 



A female was shot at Tanamo on March 1. 



