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passing into white on chin, the feathers on aural flaps more whitish ; 

 narrow facial rim nearl}^ uniform dark brown; under parts rather 

 light buff, immaculate on median line of abdomen, anal region, 

 under tail-coverts, and legs, but elsewhere longitudinally streaked 

 with bister brown, the streaks very narrow posteriorly, broader 

 anteriorly, where forming broad stripes on chest; under wing-coverts 

 light buff, sometimes immaculate but usually with a few streaks 

 of brown; under primary coverts light buff with a large, sharply 

 defined, terminal area of brown; under surface of remiges predomi- 

 nantly light buff, the secondaries with narrow, distant, bars of gray- 

 ish brown, the outer primaries with broad bands (more or less irreg- 

 ular) on distal portion, sometimes with one band anterior to middle 

 portion; bill dusky horn color or blackish; iris lemon yellow; naked 

 portion of toes dull brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male. — Tail, 131.5; culmen, from cere, 17.5." 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater AntUles. 



Strix brachyotus (not of Gmelin) Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1869, 601 

 (Porto Rico). 



Otus (Brachyotus) brachyotus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 25, part (Porto Rico). 



Brachyotus cassinii (not of Brewer) Gundlach, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1874, 307, 310 

 (Porto Rico); 1878, 158, 164 (Porto Rico); AnaL Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 

 1878, 165 (Porto Rico). 



Brachyotus cassini Stahl, Ornis, vol. 3, 1887, 450 (Porto Rico). 



Asio -portoricensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., sigs. 23, 24, April 6, 13, 1882, 

 866, 370, 371 (Porto Rico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 468 

 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 191; Cat. West Ind. Bii-ds, 1892, 

 10, 100, 132.— Reichenow and Schalow, Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1883, 414 (trans- 

 lation of orig. descr.). — Bowdish, Auk, xix, 1902, 361 (San Juan Bay, Porto 

 Rico). 



A[sio] portoricensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1882, 368 (diagnosis). 



[Asio] portoricensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 

 1899, 280. 



Brachyotus portoricensis Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 31. 



Asio accipitrinus (not Strix accipitrina Pallas) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr,- 

 Am., Aves., iii, 1897, 7, part (Porto Rico). 



ASIO GALAPAGOENSIS (Gould). 



GALAPAGOS SHORT-EARED OWL. 



Similar to A. flammeus but decidedly smaller (wing 278-288 mm.), 

 and coloration much darker above, the legs broadly streaked with 

 dark brown, under parts more or less barred, as well as striped, with 

 dark brown, under wing-coverts heavily spotted with dark brown, 

 and outer webs of outer primaries with the buff spaces decidedly 

 smaller than the brown, interspaces. 



a One specimen, the wings defective. Three specimens of unknown sex measure 

 as follows: Wing, 270-286 (278); tail, 126-136 (131); culmen, from cere, 17-17.5 (17.2). 



