lU. GYMNASIO. 149 



llidgAvay's example and the one in the Museum, witness the greater 

 appearance of bars on the (piill-lining, and the slight evidence of a 

 bar on the primary coverts ; the character of the regular transverse 

 barring of the underparts seems to have struck us both. 



The foregoing cuts show the difference in the markings on the 

 quills and primary-coverts in (S. ninicidaria and S. (juaddoupensis. 



10. 6YMNASI0. „ 



Type. 

 Gymnasio, Bp. licv. ct Mm/, de Zool. 1854, p. 543 .... G. nudipes. 

 Gymnoglaux, Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 46(5 G. lawreucii. 



llancfe. West Indies ; Cuba ; Porto llico ; St. Thomas ; St. Croix. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Above vermiculated ; tarsi feathered halfway down nudipes, p. 149. 



b. Above unifonn, distinctly spotted with white ; tarsi 



bare for nearly their entire length lawrcncii, p. 150. 



1. Gymnasio nudipes. 



Strix nudipes, Duud. Trade, ii. p. 199 ; Vieill. Ois. de I' Am. Sepit. i. 



p. 45, t. 16. 

 Noctua nudipes, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 70 ; Less. Traite, p. 104. 

 Surnia nudipes, Bp. Oss. Re<jn. An. Ciw. p. 59. 

 Athene nudipes, Grcij/, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; tStrickl. Oim. Syn. p. 173. 

 Suvniuni nudipes, Kuup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 120 ; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 250. 

 Gymnasio nudipes, Bp. Her. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Gynmoglau.x nudipes, A. &,- E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 64, t. 1 ; Scl. i^- 



Sale. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 328; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 116. 

 Gymnoglaux newtoui, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 258. 

 Scops nudipes, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 47. 



Adult. Above brown, scarcely vermiculated at all on the upper 

 surface with darker brown, but verj' distinctly banded across with 

 dull fulvous, inclining to white on the hinder neck, the feathers 

 over the eye whitish as well as the loral plumes ; scapulars exter- 

 nally more broadh' barred Avith butfy white, forming an irregular 

 spot near the tips of some of the longer feathers ; wing-coverts 

 more dusky brown than the back, the least ones with a few fid 

 vescent spots and irregular bars, the median and greater series ver- 

 miculated with buff near the tips, with indications of a tolerably 

 distinct subterminal bar of clearer fulvous ; primary-coverts uniform 

 blackish brown, with a faint indication of buff-coloured spots or 

 bars of fulvous near the base ; quills dark brown, slightly ver- 

 miculated with sandy buff on the outer webs, es])ceially on the in- 

 nermost secondaries, which have also indications td' fulvous cross 

 bars, the inner webs of the quills with faint bars of asliy brown, a 

 little more distinct on the secondaries, the corresponding bars on 



