BITJDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 617 



GaUpagos Archipelago (James, Indefatigable, Abingdon, Albe- 

 marle, and South Seymour islands; Chatham Island?). 



Strix punctatissima Gray, in Gould, Zool. Voy. "Beagle," ill, 1841, 34, pi. 4 

 (James Island, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Brit. Mus.).— Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 55. — Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 118; Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1859, 246.— Hartlaub, Journ. fur Orn., 1854, 170.— 

 Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 182.— ScLATERand Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 323 (Indefatigable I., Galapagos).— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., ix, 1876, 494 (James, Indefatigable, and Abingdon islands).— Ridg- 

 WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 120, 122, 123, 124 (James, Indefatigable, 

 and Abingdon islands); xix, 1896, 583 (James, Indefatigable, and Abingdon 

 islands; synonymy; reprint of orig. descr.).— Rothschild and Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 175 (Chatham I.?; crit.); ix, 1902, 405 (Albemarle 

 Island; crit.), 417 (Albemarle, Indefatigable, James, and Abingdon is- 

 lands).— Snodgrass and Heller, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., v, 1904, 266 (James 

 Indefatigable, South Seymour, Abingdon, and Albemarle islands; crit.; 

 descr. eggs). 



[Strix] punctatissima Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 52, no. 566.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301. 



S[trir] punctatissima Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 41.— Rothschild and Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 202 (Galapagos). 



Stri,xflammea (not of Linnseus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, part 

 (Galapagos). 



[Strix flammea] ?. punctatissima Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 297 (m 



list of specimens). 

 Aluco punctatissima Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 196. 

 Aluco flammea punctatissima Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xiv, June 25, 



1904, 89. ..... „, 



T[yto] alba punctatissima Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft via (bd. u, 2), 



Aug., 1913, 1040. 



FamUy BUBONID^. 



THE EARED OWLS. 



=Bubonidx Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vii, n6.-SHARPE, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1874, 1; Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 79; Hand-hst, 



i, 1899, 280. 



=Bubonidae Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 236, 301. 



=Asionidse Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 403. 



=Strigidx Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 502. 



=Striginx Newton, Diet. Birds, 1894, 674, in text. 

 Striges with inner (second) toe much shorter than middle (third) 

 toe, the claw of the latter not pectinated or serrate on edge; feathers 

 of the planta tarsi (if present) not reversed or recurved, but pomted 

 downward like those of acrotarsium; outermost developed primary 

 (tenth) shorter than eighth, and at least one (soraetmies slx) pri- 

 maries with inner webs emarginated or sinuated; tail usually more or 

 less rounded, rarely truncate (never emarginate); face more or less 

 circular, or at least not pointed below, where not conspicuously 



^Temum with a manubrium, the metasternum 4-notched, the 

 sternal crest narrow; clavicles not united, the furcula free from the 



