188 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



225-260 (average, 230) mm.; exposed eulmen, 38-44 (averag-o, 41.3) 

 mm.; eulmen without cere, 28-32 (average, 30.1) mm. 



Des(y)i])tio7i. — Type, adult male. No. 4445, collection of E. A. and 

 O. Bangs; Lance au Loup, Labrador, April 9, 1899; Ernest Doane. 

 Above brownish black, vermiculated and mottled with whitish, least 

 so on the head; wing-coverts like the back, though with rather more 

 white; wing-quills fuscous, the outer webs with broken bars of whitish 

 or butfy, the inner with partial bars of ochraceous bull on the l)asal 

 portion; tail sepia brown, the middle feathers with mottlings and 

 broken l)ai's of whitish and buffy, the rest with irregular Ijars of paler 

 brown and ochraceous; forehead and supraloral streak white, much 

 mixed with brown; facial disk dull gray, with mixture of blackish 

 and some ochraceous, bordered ]>ehind by a black band which joins 

 the black horns; sides of the neck mottled with dark brown, whitish, 

 and ochraceous; chin and throat white, separated by a dark brown 

 band whose feathers have grayish or ochraceous edgings: breast 

 ochraceous, with blotches, bars, and mottlings of brown and white; 

 remainder of lower surface barred with black and white, with laterally 

 much ochraceous and buffy; lining of wing mottled with white, In-own, 

 and ochraceous; tarsi and tibitB deep ochraceous, spotted and irregu- 

 larly barred with dusky; feet dull buffy grayish, spotted and obsoletely 

 barred with dark brown. 



Although by authors heretofore referred to mturatus^ the Labrador 

 bird diff'ers from that form as detailed above, and its characters, 

 though not as strongly marked as are those of some of the other races, 

 are 3'et sufficient for recognition by name, particularly in view of a 

 widely separated range. Although, of course, nearest saturatux, the 

 differences may be readily appreciated in a good sei'ies. For the 

 privilege of describing this form the writer is indebted to the cour- 

 tesy of Mr. Outram Bangs, who had already noted its distinctness. 



Specimens from the following localities have been seen: 



Lahrador. — Okkak; Makko\nk; Hopedale; Turnavik Island; Lance 

 au Loup; Fort Nascopee. 



Ungava. — Fort Chimo; Near Forks. 



ASIO MAGELLANICUS VIRGINIANUS (Gmelin). 



Slrix virginiana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 287. 



Strix bubo variete E. ludovidanus Daudin, Traite d'Orn., II, 1800, p. 210. 

 Bubo jnnicola YiEihiuOT, Hist. Nat. Ois. Am. Sept., I, 1807, p. 51, pi. xix. 

 Strix crassirostris YiEihLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VII, 1817, p. 44. 

 Slrix macrorhyncha TBMMmcK, PI. Color., II, 1821, pi. 62. 



Bubo virginianus variety atlanticus Cassin, Illnstr. Birds California, Texas, etc., 

 1854, p. 178. 



Chars, suhsp. — Similar to Asio magellanicus heterocnemh., but much 

 smaller; verj^ much more rufous throughout; legs and feet less con- 

 spicuously mottled. 



Type locality. — Virginia. 



