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3. ASIO GALAPAGOENSIS (Gould) Strickl. 



{Galapagoan Short-eared Oich) 



Otns (Braclnjotus) galapagocnsis Gould PZS. 1837, 10 (Galapagos). 



Brachyotiis {/alaputjoenhis BOXAP. Cousp. i, 1850, 51.^'^ASS. Illustr. B. Cal. Tex. etc. 



1854, IK?. 

 Otiis galapagoensis Darwin Voy. Beag. Birds, iii, 1844, 32, pi. 3. — Gray Genera B. i, 



1844, 40; List. B. Brit. Mus. , 108; Haud-l. i, 186'J, 51. 



Asia galapagoensis Strickl. Orn. Syn. i, 1855, 211. 

 Brachjiotus jyalustris, c. galapagoensis Coi'ES Birds N. W. 1874, 307. 

 "Asio accipitrinus" Sharpe Cat. Strig. Brit. Mire. 1875, 234 (part). 



Asio accipitrinus, j. Asia galapagoensis Siiarpe t. c. 23s (Galapagos), 



Smitusonian Institution, Janum-y 13, 1881. 



DEISCRIPTIOIV OF 1WO NEW RACES OF MVADESTES OBSCURVS 



1,AFR. 



By LEONIIARD STE JNEGEK. 



During a recent examination of the species of the genus Myadestes, 

 I have found that M. ohscurus ought to be divided into three distinct 

 races. I am indebted to the kindness of the authorities of the National 

 Museum for the opportunity of describing them. 



Prof. S. F. Baird in his "Review" of American Birds, I, p. 431, has 

 ah^eady remarked, that " in specimens from Western Mexico, Tonila, 

 and Tres Marias, the ash of head invades the back," and that "the 

 rufous of the baek is paler." But I find, also, that the specimens from 

 the continent and those from the islands mentioned differ from each 

 other so essentially in other particulars, that I have thought it convenient 

 to separate them as follows : 



a' Head and neck slate-colored, rest of upper parts brownish olive. 



1. M. olscurus Lafr. 

 a" Head, neck, and fore part of the back lighter ash-colored, changing gradually into 

 the paler olivaceous of the remaining upper parts. 

 ¥ First primary not longer than the longest of the primary coverts ; the second 

 shorter than the seventh. Only the three outer tail-feathers tipped with 

 white. Innermost secondaries without light edges on the tip. 



2. M. obscurus var. oecidenlaUs Stejxeger. 

 6* First primary much longer than the longest of the primary coverts, the sec- 

 ond equal to the seventh. All the tail-feathers distinctly tipped with 

 white. Innermost secondaries with the tips light-edged. 



3. M. obscurus var. insularis Stejxeger. 



Myadestes obscurus Lafr. 



Myadestes obscurus I^afr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 98. — Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, I, p. 430. — 

 ScLAT. and Salv. Exot. Ornith. pt. iv, p. 49, pi. xxv. 



Descr. — (U. S. Nat Mus. No. 30722. Yolcan de Fuego, Guatemala, 

 Nov., 1861. O. Salvin.) — Slate-gray, the back brownish olive, more 



