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cially if any one approached, but it did not hoot. It feeds upon lizards 

 and mice, it is said.'' 



Male. — Upper plumage of a fine deep brown color, marked with round- 

 ish spots of light fulvous; the spots are smallest on the crown, hind 

 neck, and smaller wing-coverts; they are conspicuously large on the 

 other wing-coverts, the dorsal region, scapulars, and tertials ; the quills 

 are blackish-brown, with indented marks of pale reddish fulvous on the 

 outer webs of the primaries, and large roundish paler spots on the inner 

 webs ; under wing-coverts reddish fulvous sparsely mottled with black ; 

 tail dark brown, of the same color as the back, crossed with four bars 

 (including the terminal one), of light reddish fulvous, which do not quite 

 reach the shaft on each web ; bristles at the base of the bill black, with 

 the basal portion of their shafts whitish ; front white, superciliary 

 streak pale fulvous ; cheeks dark brown, the feathers tipped with ful- 

 vous ; upper part of throat pale whitish buff, the lower part grayish- 

 white, with a buffy tinge, separated by a broad band of dark brown 

 across the middle of the throat, the feathers of which are bordered with 

 light fulvous ; the sides of the neck and the upper part and sides of the 

 breast are dark brown, like the back, the feathers ending with fulvous, 

 the spots being larger on the breast ; the feathers of the abdomen are 

 pale fulvous, conspicuously barred across their centres with dark brown; 

 on some of the feathers the terminal edgings are of the same color ; the 

 flanks are of a clear light fulvous, with bars of a lighter brown ; under 

 tail-coverts fulvous, with indistinct bars of brown ; thighs clear fulvous, 

 with nearly obsolete narrow dusky bars ; the feathers of the tarsi are 

 colored like the thighs and extend to the toes ; bill clear light yellow, 

 with the sides of the upper mandible blackish ; toes dull yellowish- 

 brown. 



Length (fresh), 8J in. ; wing, 6| ; tail, 3J ; tarsus, IJ. 



The female differs but little from the male in plumage ; the bars on 

 the abdomen appear to be a little more strongly defined, and at the base 

 of the culmen is a small red spot. There are two females in the collec- 

 tion, the other also having the red spot ; in one the tarsi are feathered 

 to the toes, in the other only for two-thirds their length. 



Length of one (fresh), 8 in. ; wing, 6i ; tail, 2J ; tarsus, IJ. 



Length of the other, 8J ; wing, 6| ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 1^. 



Mr. Ridgway suggested a comparison with his S. guadeloupenrsis, the 

 type of which belongs to the Boston ^N^atural History Society, and by the 

 courtesy of Dr. Brewer I have been able to make it. 



Compared with guadelonpensis, the prevailing color is dark brown, 

 instead of a rather light earthy-brown, and the spots on the interscapu- 

 lar region are much larger ; it is more strikingly barred below, the other 

 having the breast more spotted ; the bars on the tail are four instead of 

 six. In the Antigua bird each feather of the breast is crossed with but 

 one bar, while those of the other are crossed with two. 



