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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 272-307 (287); wing, 226-236 (230.5); 

 tail, 102.5-106 (104.2); culmen (from cere), 18-19 (18.5); tarsus, 

 48-53.5 (50.5); middle toe, 28.5-30 (29.2).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 260-315 (283); wing, 241-243 

 (242); tail, 100.5-108 (105.5); culmen (from cere), 18-19 (18.5); 

 tarsus, 50-55.5 (53.3); middle toe, 28.5-30.5 (29.7).^ 



Islands of St. Vincent (Kingston), Grenada (St. Georges), Car- 

 riacou. Union, and Bequia, Lesser AntUles. 



Strix insularis Pelzeln, Journ. fiir Orn., xx, Jan., 1872, 23 (St. Vincent, Lesser 

 Antilles;^ coll. Vienna Mus.). 



T[yto] a[lba] insularis Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxi, Jan. 25, 1913, 38, in 

 text. 



T[yto] alba insularis Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), 1913, 

 1040. 



Strix flammea var. nigrescens (not of Lawrence torn. cit. p. 64) Lawrence, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 194 (St. Vincent), 273 (Grenada; habits), 487, part 

 (St. Vincent; Grenada).— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 621 (Gre- 

 nada; habits; descr. eggs). 



a Four specimens from Grenada. 

 b Three specimens. 



With a wholly insufficient amount of material, I am unable to determine whether 

 the birds from St. Vincent on the one hand and those from Grenada and the Grena- 

 dines on the other are really the same or not; but I strongly suspect that they may be 

 different. The only two specimens from St. Vincent are very unlike, one (that of 

 undetermined sex) being a very dark bird with very conspicuous white spotting on the 

 upper parts, and conspicuously different from any other in the entire series, while the 

 other is much lighter in color of upper parts, which are almost wholly devoid of any 

 white markings; indeed the latter is so much like the birds from Dominica that I am 

 unable to distinguish it satisfactorily, and possibly it may be in reality a bird from 

 Dominica wrongly labeled. If the two birds said to be from St. Vincent are both 

 really from that island, I doubt whether two forms can be made out. However, a 

 very much larger number of specimens is required to settle the question. 



c Supposed by Pelzeln to be St. Vincent in the Cape Verde group, Africa, but 

 shown by Hartert to be the West Indian island of that name. 



