BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 669 



Adults (sexes alike). — Predominant color of upper parts dark 

 bister brown, this broken everywhere Geast so on back) by irre^lar 

 spots, streaks, and bars of buff or cinnamon-buff, this in form of 

 streaks on pileum and hindneck (the streaks much broader on the 

 latter), broad bands on remiges and tail, irregular spotting elsewhere, 

 the last most conspicuous on outer webs of exterior scapulars ; lesser 

 wing-coverts with the dark brown very largely predominating; 

 longer primaries with the buffy spaces on proximal portion of outer 

 webs decidedly smaller than the dark brown interspaces; tail with 

 the buff bands slightly narrower than the dark browTi interspaces, 

 except on outermost rectrix and inner webs of other rectrices, on the 

 middle pair of rectrices consisting of transverse ocellate spots; 

 orbital region sooty black, this bordered behind and below by dull 

 buffy mixed with blackish, the lores duller and lighter buffy with 

 black shafts; broad facial rim very dark sooty brown, uniform 

 behind ear-openings, minutely speckled with buffy above and on sides 

 of throat; chin dull white or buffy white; rest of under parts deep 

 buff or light cinnamon-buff, the chest broadly striped with dark sooty 

 brown, the breast with similar but naiTow^er, more cuneate, streaks, the 

 sides, flanks, and sides of abdomen with streaks like those on breast 

 but here crossed by (usually two) bars of dark brown, the streaks 

 dilated at point of intersection; under tail-coverts with large V-shaped 

 marks of dark brown, confluent with a median streak of the same; 

 legs deeper cinnamon-buff, the tarsi broadly streaked with dark brown, 

 at least on outer side; under wing-coverts cinnamon-buff with 

 numerous large rhomboid spots and mesial streaks of dark brown; 

 bill grayish black; iris orange-yellow or orange. 



Adult male.— Lengi\\ (skins), 330-332 (331); wing, 278-288 (282.7); 

 tail, 135.5-138 (136.5); culmen, from cere, 18.5-19.5 (19).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 367; wing, 288; tail, 142.5; culmen, 

 from cere, 20.5.^ 



Galapagos Archipelago (James, Tower, Bindloe, Duncan, Barring- 

 ton, Chatham, Gardner, Culpepper, Albemarle, and Indefatigable 

 islands). 



Otus (Brachyotus) galapagoensis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 10 (Galapagos 

 Archipelago; coll. Zool. Soc. Lond.). 



OtiLs galapagoensis Gould, Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' iii, 1841, 32, pi. 3 (James I., 

 Galapagos). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 323 (Inde- 

 fatigable I., Galapagos). 



0[tiis] galapagoensis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 



[Otus] galapagoensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 51, no. 551. 



[Brachyotus] galapagoensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 51. 



Brachyotus galapagoensis Cassin, Illustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 183.— 

 Hartlaub, Joum. fiir Orn., 1854, 170. 



o Three specimens (two from Tower Island, one from Indefatigable Island). 

 & One specimen (from Tower Island). 



