660 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 395; wing, 305; tail, 157; culmen, 

 from cere, 21.5.® 



Adult female.— L^n^h. (skins), 422-460 (440.5); wing, 340-347 

 (343.5); tail, 169.5-171 (170.2); culmen, from cere, 21.5-24 (22.7).'' 



Cuba and Isle of Pines (La Vega) ; southeastern Mexico, in State of 

 Vera Cruz (Mirador), southward through Central America (Coban, 

 Guatemala; Matagalpa and San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua) and 

 South America to southern Brazil (Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul; Sao 

 Paulo; Uructim, Mattogrosso) and Argentina (Tucuman). 



N[yctalops]stygius'SSlKGijie,B., Isis, 1832, 1221 (Brazil; coll. Mus. Eichstaett). 



Nyctalops stygius Koenigswald, Joum. fiir Orn., 1896, 382 (Sao Paulo, s. Bra- 

 zil). — Dabbene, Oru. Argent., 1910, 251 (Tucuman, Argentina). 



[Nyctalops] stygius Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116. 



Otus stygius Pucheran, Rev. Zool., 1849, 29. — Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 

 113; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lend., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 232.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., \ii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Striges), 

 1863, 6; no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 4.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 5 

 (Mirador, Vera Cruz). — Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1868, 10.— Ridgway, in Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 17. 



0[tus] stygius Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 



[Otus] stygius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 50, no. 542 (s. Brazil). — Pelzeln, Orn, 

 Bras., 1871, 400. 



Asio stygius Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 207. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 ii, 1875, 241 (Brazil; Cuba). — BERLEPSCHand Ihering, Zeitschr. Orn., 1885, 

 166 (Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul, s. Brazil; crit.). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 466 (Cuba; synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 189; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 10, 100, 128 (Cuba).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1897, 6 (Mexico; San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua; Colombia; 



« One specimen, from Isle of Pines. 



6 Two specimens, from Vera Cruz and Nicaragua. 



Locality. 



MALE. 



One adult male from Isle of Pines 



FEMALES. 



■ One adnit female from Vera Cruz (Mirador). . . 

 One adult female from Nicaragua (Matagalpa) . 



SEX TINKNOWN 



Two adults from Cuba 



One adult from Guatemala (Coban) 



One adult from Colombia 



One adult from Brazil 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



21.0 

 24 



The series examined is much too small to justify an opinion of whether the species 

 requires subdivision or not. The Cuban examples are very much like continental 

 ones, but the one from the Isle of Pines is somewhat different from those examined 

 from the main island. 



