824 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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



Pholeoptynx dominicensis Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 41. 



Speotyto cunicularia (not Strix cunicularia Molina) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 



1875, 143, part (Santo Domingo; see p. 146). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San 



Domingo, 1885, 118. 



SPEOTYTO GUADELOUPENSIS GUADELOUPENSIS (Ridgway). 



GUADELOUPE BURROWING OWL. 



Much warmer or more reddish brown above than any of the forms of 

 S. cunicularia or S. Jloridana, with the lighter spots smaller, less 

 numerous, and dull brownish buff instead of light buff or white; 

 light colored spots on outer webs of primaries smaller, brownish buff; 

 "eyebrow" brown, not whitish; under parts with ground color more 

 deeply buffy, with brown bars narrower, except on breast where 

 brown predominates, the brownish buff forming roundish or oval 

 spots or broad transverse bars; fourth and fifth primaries (counting 

 from outside) longest. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above light Vandyke brown or dull verona 

 brown, spotted with light brownish buff, the spots on outer webs of 

 primaries much smaller than the brown interspaces and not reaching 

 to shafts; tail crossed by four or five narrow interrupted bands of 

 pale brownish buff, and narrowly tipped with the same; "eyebrow" 

 (superciliary region) brown, broken by small spots or streaks of 

 brownish buff; lores mixed brown and dull brownish white, becoming 

 dark sooty brown or blackish terminally; suborbital and auricular 

 regions brown, narrowly and indistinctly streaked with paler; malar 

 region, chin, and upper throat immaculate dull white or buffy white; 

 lower tlu-oat broadly barred with brownish buff and deep brown, 

 the former predominating anteriorly, the latter posteriorly; a small 

 but inconspicuous (sometimes scarcely obvious) spot of plain brown- 

 ish buff in center of foreneck; chest and breast brown (like upper 

 parts) broken by rounded, guttate, or oval spots and broad bars of 

 brownish buff; rest of underparts light brownish buff or dull light 

 cinnamon-buff, deeper on thighs, the sides and flanks rather broadly 

 barred with lighter, more rufescent, brown; under wing-coverts 

 cinnamon-buff, spotted toward edge of wing with brown; bill dull 

 yellowish (in dried skins) ; toes and bare parts of tarsus light brownish 

 (in dried skins) , 



Adults.— Length, (skins), about 215; wing, 158-162.5 (160); tail, 

 75.5-86.4 (79.5); culmen, from cere, 15-15.5 (15.2); tarsus, 42.5-46.2 

 (44.2); middle toe, 21.5.« 



Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 



Speotyto cunicularia, var. guadeloupensis Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 90, footnote (Guadeloupe Island, Lesser 

 Antilles; coll. Mus. Bost. Soc. N. H.). 



a Three specimens. No specimens with sex determined are available. 



