820 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



S[peotyto] cunicularia hypogsea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 516.— 



RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 265. 

 Speotyto hypogxa Henshaw, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1874, 9 (Utah). 

 [Speotyto] hypogsea Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 297. 

 Spheotyto hypogxa Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 444 (Newbury- 



port, Massachusetts, accidental). 

 Strix calif or nica Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iv, 1838, pi. 432, fig. 2 (name on 



plate). 

 Athene socialis Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, April, 1846, 47 (Mexico; 



New Mexico; Rocky Mts.; California); Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 



30 (California). 

 Speotyto cunicularia obscura Stephens, Auk, xii, Oct., 1895, 372 (Upper Lake, 



Lake Co., California; coll. F. Stephens).— McGregor, Auk, xv, 1898, 187 



(crit.). 

 Speotyto cunicularia bechi Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, July 25, 



1902, 405 (Guadalupe Island, Lower California; coll. Tring Mus.). 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA ROSTRATA (Townsend). 



CLARION ISLAND BtTRROWING OWL. 



Similar to S. c. hypogxa but with much larger bill and feet and 

 decidedly shorter wing and tail; color of upper parts averaging 

 darker, the under parts usually more decidedly buffy. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 215-235 (221); wmg, 160-169 (165); 

 tail, 72-79.5 (76.3); culmen, from cere, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 45.5-49 

 (47.1); middle toe, 20-22.5 (21.4).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 195-202 (198.5); wing, 164-164.5 

 (164.2); tail, 70-70.5 (70.2); culmen, from base, 15.5-16.5 (16); tar- 

 sus, 44.5-46 (45.2); middle toe, 20.5-21 (20.7).* 



Clarion Island, Revillagigedo group, western Mexico. 



Speotyto rostrata TowssBNB (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, Sept. 9, 1890, 133 



(Clarion Island, Revillagigedo group, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — 



Anthony, Auk, xv, 1898, 318 (Clarion I.). 

 [Speotyto] rostrata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 297. 

 Speotyto cunicularia rostirata Rothschh^d and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 



87, 105 (Clarion I.). 

 S[peotyto] c[unicularia] rostrata Rothschh^d and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 



405, in text. 

 Pholeoptynx rostrata Gurnet, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 41. 



SPEOTYTO FLORIDANA FLORIDANA (Ridgway). 



FLORIDA BTTRROWING OWL. 



Above darker and much less buffy brown than in any of the forms 

 of S. cunicularia, with the spotting dull white mstead of more or less 

 buffy; ground color of under parts much less buffy (duU white, buffy 

 only on thighs and under wing-coverts) ; under wing-coverts spotted 

 with brown., at least toward edge of wing; tarsus less extensively 

 feathered, the feathering shorter; wing and tail averaging much 

 shorter than in S. cunicularia Tiypogsea and bill larger. 



o Ten specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



