BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 675 



cinnamon (sometimes slightly intermixed with wliitish) , the feathers 

 usually with black mesial streaks, often with a few small dusky bars 

 also; chin plain cinnamon bujff or cinnamon; rest of under parts 

 light to pale ochraceous-tawny or clay color, irregularly vermiculated 

 or freckled wdth darker and with distinct mesial streaks of dark brown 

 or bro^vnish black, the flanks, etc., Avith ground color paler, sometimes 

 suffused with dull buff y whitish; legs cinnamon-buff , usually immacu- 

 late but sometimes sparsely flecked with brown; under tail-coverts 

 paler cinnamon-buff, nearly if not quite immaculate; under win^- 

 coverts cimiamon-buff, sometimes with a few dusk}' streaks near 

 edge of wing; under primary-coverts uniform dark grayish brown 

 with basal half (approximately) abruptly pale buff or buffy white; 

 under surface of remiges pale buff banded on outer primaries and dis- 

 tal half or more of other remiges \\ith mottled dusky; bill dull yellowish 

 becoming more horn colored laterally and basally (pale bluish gray 

 in life)"; iris brown; naked toes dull brownish in dried skins (dull 

 lead color in life) ^. 



Young. — Remiges and rec trices as in adults; back Hght graj-ish 

 brown or buffy grayish brown, more or less distinctly harred Asdth 

 dusky; rest of plumage, including wing-coverts, duU buff or hght 

 dull cinnamon-buff, sparsely and, for the most part indistinctly, 

 barred with brown, the under tail-coverts, anal region, and legs 

 (usually, at least) immaculate. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 270-348 (314); wing," 197-228.5 

 (213.4); tail, 96-129 (121.2); cuhnen (from cere), 19-22 (20.2).^ 



Adult female.— L&ngi\\ (skins), 310-337 (319); mug, 214.5-229 

 (222); tail, 115-131 (123.6); culmen (from cere), 20-21.5 (20.0).<= 



Island of Jamaica, Greater AiitiUes (St. George; Spanishtown; 

 St. Andrews; Priestmans River; mountains above Bath; St. An- 

 drews). 



Ephialtes grammicus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 19 (Tait-Shafton, Jamaica); 



Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 4. 

 Pseudoscops grammicus Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769; Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 113; 



Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 231. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



18G1, 80.— Albrecht, Journ. tur Orn., 18G2, 204.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 465 



(synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 188; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 



130.— Scott, Auk, viii, 1892, 127 (habits). 

 [Pseiuloscops] grammicus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116. — 



Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21. 

 r[seudoscops] grammicus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 110. 

 [5cops] grammicus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 46. 

 Scops grammicus Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 205. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1858, 133. 

 {Ottis\ grammicus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 51, no. 547. 

 Asio grammicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 242.— Cory, Cat. West 



Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100.— Sclater, Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 12. 

 [^sio] grammicus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 281. 



o According to Gosse. & Nine specimens. c Five specimens. 



