BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 613 



Auk, iii, 1886, 465 (synonymy; descr.); Birda West Ind., 1889, 188; Cat. 



West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, 131.— Gurney, Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 43.— 



Verrill (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phita., 1909, 359 (Santo 



Domingo). 

 [Strix] glaucops Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 52, no. 567.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 



1885, 21.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301. 

 [Aluco]flammeus glaucops Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 196. 

 T[yto] alba glaucops Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 



1913, 1040. 

 Strix dominicensis (not of Gmelin) Hartlaub, Naumannia, ii, 2 heft, 1852, 54 



(Santo Domingo).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, April, 1883, 95 (Santo 



Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fur Orn., 



1885, 458 (reprint of Cory's orig. descr.). 

 Strix flammea (not of Linnaeus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, 302, 



part (Santo Domingo). 



TYTO INSULARIS INSULARIS (Pelzeln). 



ST. VINCENT BARN OWL. 



Small, like T. glaucops, but with face vinaceous-brown (more or 

 less deep) instead of silvery gray, under parts spotted instead of 

 barred, upper parts more or less conspicuously dotted with white, 

 and general tone of coloration of upper parts much darker and less 

 uniform. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Face vinaceous-brown or cameo brown (more 

 or less deep), with an area of brownish black in front of eye; 

 facial rim or border bright rufous-brown or hazel, spotted, m part at 

 least, with bro^vnish black, the feathers of lower portion (from ears 

 downward) with larger terminal or subterminal spots of the same; 

 general color of upper parts dusky, minutely vermiculated and freckled 

 with light gray, but the dusky usually greatly predominating, each 

 feather of back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser wing- 

 coverts, primary coverts, and alulae usually with a small subterminal 

 spot of white, the hindneck, sides of neck, and pileum with minute 

 spots or streaks of the same; intermixed with the general dusky 

 color is a greater or less amount of tawny-ochraceous, this chiefly 

 on outer webs and hidden portion of scapulars, middle wing-coverts, 

 and basal portion of greater wing-coverts ; anterior border of wing 

 (broadly) mostly tawny or deep taMmy-ochraceous, spotted with 

 blackish; primaries sooty black or dusky with large, more or less 

 heavily mottled, spots of light tawny; tail dark sooty brown or dusky, 

 more or less distinctly banded with light tawny or tawny-ochraceous, 

 the bands of the latter much broken (sometimes rendered nearly 

 obsolete) by dusky mottling; under parts cinnamon-buff (some- 

 times deeper or more ochraceous posteriorly), with numerous irregular 

 (mostly triangular or sagittate) spots of dusky, these sometimes 

 inclosing a smaller spot of whitish; bill dull yellow or yellowish 

 white (in dried skins) ; iris dark brown; toes and lower part of tarsi 

 dusky grajdsh brown (in dried skins) . 



