BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 679 



GYMNASIO NUDIPES NEWTONI (Lawrence). 



NEWTOWS BARE-LEGGED OWL. 



Similar to G. n. nudipes, but color of upper parts lighter and more 

 grajdsh brown and under parts more sparsely and less heavily 

 streaked and vermiculated. 



Adult.—Lengih (skins), 205-209 (207); wing, 145.5-162.5 (157.9); 

 tail, 79.5-S8 (S3.1); culmen (from cere), 13.5-14.5 (13.8).<» 



Island of St. Thomas, St. Johns, and St. Croix,'' Greater Antilles. 



Gymnasio nudipes (not Strix nudipes Daudin) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii 



1875, 114, part (St. Johns; St. Croix).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 469, part; Birds 



West Ind., 1889, 192, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, part (St. 



Thomas; St. Johns; St. Croix).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 130 



(St. Thomas). 

 [Gymnasio] nudipes Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21, part (St. Johns; St 



Croix). 

 Gymnoglaux nudipes (not Strix nudipes Daudin) Newton (A. and E.), IbLs, 1859, 



64, pi. 1 (St. Croix; habits; crit.), 307 (St. Johns; crit.).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 374 (St. Thomas; crit.).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 328, part (St. Thomas; St. Croix; crit.) 

 Gymnoglaux newtoni Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1860, 259 



(St. Croix, Greater Antilles; based on Ibis, 1859, pi. 1); Ibis, 1878, 115 (St. 



Croix; St. Thomas; descr.). 

 G[ymnoglaux] newtoni IjAWrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 1878, 187 diagnosis). 



GYMNASIO LAWRENCn (Sclater and Salvin), 



CUBAN BARE-LEGGED OWL. 



Tarsus entirely naked, except extreme upper anterior portion; 

 back and wing-coverts with conspicuous white spots; under parts 

 without transverse vermiculations. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above olive-brown without bars or vermicu- 

 lations, but with the back, scapulars, and -wdng-coverts spotted with 

 white, these spots usually large, conspicuous, and approachmg a 

 rounded form but sometimes smaller, partially concealed, and of 

 irregular shape ; secondaries with more or less distinct lighter cross- 

 bands, the primaries with large, roundish spots of pale dull buff or 

 dirty wliite; tail dull brown, usually with indications of several nar- 

 row paler bands, but sometimes entirely uniform on upper surface; 

 "eyebrow" (superciliary region) and lower part of face dull pale 

 brownish buff or dirty white, the orbital and auricular regions chirker; 

 under parts usually pale brownish buff or dull wliite (rarely pure 

 white), each feather wdth a distinct mesial stripe of brown, these 

 stripes sometimes linear, more often lanceolate, but occasionally 



a Four specimens from St. Thomas, sex undetermined. 



b I have seen specimens from St. Thomas only; but judging from the colored plate 

 in The Ibis (1859, pi. 1), the St. Croix birds seem to agree in coloration with those from 

 St. Thomas. 



