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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TYTO PONCTATISSIMA (Gray). 



GALAPAGOS BARN OWL. 



Apparently "• most nearly resembling T. insularis but still more 

 deeply colored and with under parts irregularly barred, instead of 

 spotted, with dusky. 



"Adult (type). — Above dull brown, with a few scattered spots of 

 dusky white, and minute flecks of the same on the dorsal feathers; 

 sides of neck light golden buff, indistinctly marked with transverse 

 lines of brown, becoming gradually obscure and disappearing on the 

 hind neck; the wing-coverts more or less washed externally with 

 deep golden buff, many of the white spots also tinged with the same 

 color, the buff predominating along the edge of the wing and at the 

 base of the primary-coverts ; quills dull bro-wn like the back, shghtly 

 varied with minute flecks of white, and vermiculated with golden 

 buff on tlie outer webs, much more distinct on the primaries, where 

 it forms four irregularly defined bands; the secondaries with a dis- 

 tinct white terminal spot; the inner Uning of wing ashy brown, the 

 base of the feathers bufty white, the inner webs with two or three 

 indistinct bands of whitish; tail golden buff, barred across with four 

 bands of dark brown, the interspaces vermiculated with the same 

 color, especially toward the tips of the feathers, which are there 

 almost entirely brown, -wdth a white terminal spot; general color of 

 face vinous rufous, inclining to black round the eye; the cheeks 

 silvery white, washed with rufous ; facial ruff rich golden buff, white 

 at base of feathers, which are coarsely vermiculated with brown, 

 sometimes in a horseshoe pattern; crown of head deep golden buff, 

 vermiculated with brownish ; under surface of body rich golden buff, 

 transversely veiToiculated with brownish bars, irregular in shape and 

 more distinct on the abdomen, the under wing- and tail-coverts 

 colored hke the breast, but the latter rather paler; bill yellowish, 

 horn-colored at base; feet blackish. Total length 13 inches [330.2 

 mm.], culmen 1.7 [4.32 mm.], wing 9.2 [233.7 mm],t ail 4.6 [116.8 mm.], 

 tarsus 2.3 [58.4 mm.]." ^ 



a I have not been able to examine a specimen of this form. 



b Sharpe's description in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 297, 298. 



The following measurements (converted from inches and tenths in the originals to 

 millimeters) are given, respectively, by Gray, Sliarpe, and Salvin; it should be 

 remarked that the first two are from the same specimen, the last probably being from 

 one of the specimens collected later by Dr. Habel: 



Wing. 



TaU. 



Culman 

 (prob- 

 ably 

 includ- 

 ing 

 cere). 



Middle 

 toe. 



Total 



length. 



Gray, in Gould's Zool. Voy. "Beagle," from type 

 specimen 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, from type specimen. . 



Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, 494 (from Habel 

 specimen?) 



234.9 

 233.7 



107.9 

 116.8 



104.1 



43.2 



6S.6 

 54.8 



27.9 



342.9 

 330.2 



