BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



603 



often immaculate, sometimes buff and white, sometimes with three or 

 four distinct but interrupted or incomplete dusky bands; face white, or 

 buffy white, relieved by a spot of vinaceous-brown or burnt umber 

 in front of eye; facial ring white or white and buff, sometimes with 

 feathers of lower portion tipped with brown or black; under parts 

 white (sometimes more or less washed or suffused with ochraceous- 

 buff), sometimes wholly immaculate, but usually sparsely flecked 

 with triangular, sagittate, or rhomboidal specks of blackish; bill 

 dull yellowish; iris dark brown; toes and lower part of tarsi light 

 grayish brown (hi dried skins) . 



^^uZ^maZf'.— Length (skins), 355-385 (362); wing, 316-341 (332.5); 

 tail, 137-149 (143.2); culmen (from cere), 21.5-25.5 (23); tarsus, 

 67-74 (71.6); middle toe, 37-43 (39.5).'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skms), 365-430 (385); whig, 328-358 

 (337.9); tail, 134-152 (144.2); cuhnen (from cere), 23-25.5 (24.1); 

 tarsus, 70.5-77 (73.3); middle toe, 39.5-43.5 (41.2) .« 



Islands of Cuba (Guama; El Guama; Cabanas; Kemedios; IIol- 

 guin; Monte Verde; Consolacion del Sur; Trmidad; Figuabas), Isle 

 of Pines (Santa Seville) , Grand Cayman, Cayman Brae, and Jamaica 

 (Moneague; St. Catherines; Priestmans River) . 



Strixfurcata Temminck, PI. Col., ii, livr. 73, July, 1827, pi. 432, and text (Cuba; 

 Mus. Pays-Bar). — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 34. — 

 GuNDLACH, Journ. fur Orn., 1855, 467 (Cuba); 1871, 268 (Cuba; crit.), 377 

 (Cuba; habits); Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 227. — Brewer, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 140 (crit.). 



[Stnx]furcata Gundlach, Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba). — Sharpe, Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 300 (Jamaica). 



Strix flammea, var. furcata Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, iii, 1884, 12, footnote. 



Strix flammea furcata Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 464 (synonymy; descr.; geog. range), 

 502 (Grand Cayman); Birds West Ind., 1889, 187.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 127 

 (Jamaica; habits). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 124 (Jamaica). — Menegaux, 

 Rev. Fran?. d'Orn., no. 2, 1909, 23 (Figuabas, e. Cuba).— Lowe, Ibis, 1911, 

 149 (Grand Cayman). 



o Twelve specimens. 



I am unable to detect any constant differences in coloration in specimens from 

 different islands. 



