BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 805 



Rufescent phase. 



Similar to the grayish brown phase but the general color of upper 

 parts much browner (natal brown to deep dull verona brown), and 

 more uniform, the back and inner scapulars often plain brown or 

 with the transverse spots or bars mostly concealed, the markings on 

 pileum and nape much less distinct, pale cinnamon, usually more 

 streak-like, the throat-collar, sides of breast, and spots on sides, etc., 

 more rufescent (sometimes clear sayal brown). 



AduUmale.— Length, (skins), 142-168 (151); wing, 87-92.5 (91.4); 

 tail, 54-60 (56.4); culmen (from cere), 10-12 (10.9).'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 158-184 (172); wing, 97-104 (99.6); 

 tail, 59.5-67 (63.4); culmen (from cere), 11.5-13 (12.1).° 



Island of Cuba (Baracoa; Cabanas; El Guamii; Guamd; Mariel; 

 Guantanamo Bay; Consolaci6n del Sur; Fermina; Remedies). 



Noctua siju D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, 41, pi. 3 

 (Cuba); French, ed., p. 33. 



Noctua seju D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, pi. 3. 



A[thene\ siju Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 35. 



Athene siju Cassin, Cat. Strig. Mus. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1849, 13. 



[Athene] siju Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 42, no. 431. 



[Nyctale] siju Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 54. 



Nyctale siju Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 177. 



Glauddium siju Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1855, 465. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. H., vii, 1860, 259 (synonymy; descr.; crit.). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1861, 202.— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Om., 1861, 324; 1871, 268 (crit.), 375 (hab- 

 its); Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 226.— Wright, Am. Nat., ii, 1868, 

 420. — RiDGWAY, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 105(monogr.; Remedioa 

 and Nueva Sofia, Cuba); Ibis, 1876, 17 (crit.). — Sharps, Ibis, 1875, 59 

 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 193.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 470 

 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 193; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 10, 100, 128.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 296 (near Trini- 

 dad, s. Cuba; habits; crit.). — Menegaux, Rev. Fran?. d'Om., no. 2, 1909, 

 23 (Figuabas, e. Cuba). 



[Glauddium] siju Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 21.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 298. 



G[laucidium] siju Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 207 (descr.; syn.).— Ridgway, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 94 (descr.); Ibis, 1876, 12 (diagnosis). 



Glavndium havanense Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 104 (Cuba; ex Strix 

 havanensis Lichtenstein, manuscript; coll. Berlin Mus.). 



Scops asio (not Strix asio Linnaeus) Gundlach, Joum. fiir Ora., 1861, 403 (Cuba). 



GLAUCIDIUM SIJU VITTATUM Ridgway. 6 



ISLE OF PINES PYGMY OWL. 



Similar to G. s. dju but larger; general color of upper parts 

 decidedly grayer and much more generally and conspicuously barred, 



« Seven specimens. 



&New subspecies. (Type no. 172762, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Nueva Gerona, Isle 

 of Pines, June 30, 1900; Palmer and Riley.) 



