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miculations of cinnamon-rufous (which color usually predominates 

 on chest and sides of breast), the feathers showing also broad mesial 

 stripes of dusky, usually confluent with the rufescent cross-bars, but 

 sometimes sharply lanceolate on abdomen, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts; bill, etc., as in adults of brown phase. 



Young {full-grown). — Head (except lores and chm), neck, back, 

 and rump plain cinnamon or sayal brown; lores and chin dull white 

 or buffy white, the former with conspicuous black bristly shafts; 

 throat, foreneck, and upper chest plain cmnamon (rather lighter than 

 color of pileum, hindneck, etc.) ; rest of under parts light cinnamon, 

 regularly and rather broadly barred with brown; remiges and rec- 

 trices (if developed) as in adults. 

 . Nestling {small). — Downy covering entirely uniform dull white. 



Adult maZe.— Length (sldns), 203-229 (212); wing, 153.5-172.5 

 (162.8); tail, 83-88 (85.4); culmen (from cere), 12-15 (13.9).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 196-219 (211); wmg, 154.5-160.5 

 (158.1); tail, 81.5-88 (83.6); culmen (from cere), 13.5-14.5 (14).^ 



Island of Porto Rico (Utuado; Ma3^aguez; Lares; Mameyes; Santa 

 Catalina, El Yiinque; Maricao). 



Strix nudipes Davdin, Traite d'Oni., ii, 1800, 199 (Porto Rico; "Cayenne"). — 

 ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 45, pi. 16 (Porto Rico; "St. Domingue"); 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 33 (Porto Rico; "St. Domingue").— 

 Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, 1809, 269 ("Cayenne"). 



JV[ocma](?)nMt/tpes Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool.,xiii,pt.ii, 1825, 70 ("Cayenne"). 



Noctua nudipes Lesson, Traite d'Oru., 1831, 104 (Porto Rico). 



Althene] nudipes Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 35. 



Athenenudipes Strickland, Cm. Syn., i, 1855, 173. 



Syrniuvi nudipes KauT, Jardine's Contr. Cm., 1852, 120 (Porto Rico; "St. Do- 

 mingo"); Trans. Zool. Soc. Lend., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 250. 



Gymyiasio nudipes Bonaparte, Rev. et mag. de Zool., 1854, 543. 



Gymnasia nudipes Sharp's, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 149, part (Porto Rico).^ 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 469, part (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 192, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, part (Porto Rico).— Bowdish, 

 Auk, xix, 1902, 362 (near Mayaguez, Porto Rico; habits, etc.). 



[Gymnasio] nudipes Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21, part (Porto Rico). — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 297, part. 



Gymnoglaux nudipes Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 328, part 

 (Porto Rico; crit.). — Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1878, 158 (Porto Rico), 

 164 (Porto Rico; crit.). — Lawrence, Ibis, 1878, 185 (Porto Rico; descr.). 



[Gymnoglaux] nudipes Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



G[ymnoglaux] nudipes Lawrence, Ibis, 1878, 187 (diagnosis). 



[Scops] nudipes (not Buho nudipes Vieillot) Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 496. 



[Gymnoglauxl nudipes Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1860, 258. 



Gymnoglaux krugii Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., xxii, July, 1874, 310 (characterized 

 on p. 315) (Porto Rico). — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 223 (Porto Rico; 

 again characterized). 



G[ymnoglaux] krugii [Salvin and Sclater], Ibis, 1878, 187, in text. 



a Eight specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



