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tree. The pair of birds brought back by Mr. Link were taken in a 

 small cave on the slope of the Caballos Mountains near Nueva Gerona 

 on February 15. The female showed no signs of breeding at this date. 



81. Asio stygius (Wagler). Stygian Owl. 



Asio stygius Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 100 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — 

 GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, 1893, 33 (I. of Pines). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat- 

 Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 658 (La Vega, in geog. distr.; crit.). 



Nyctalops stygius siguapa Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 201 (La 

 Vega; crit.; ex Otus siguapa D'Orbigny). — Re.'^d, I. of Pines News, VI, Jan. 

 24, 1914 (I. of Pines, rare). 



One specimen: Pasadita. 



This is a rare bird in the Isle of Pines, and does not appear to be 

 much, if at all, more numerous in Cuba. Mr. Zappey, who was for- 

 tunate enough to secure a fine adult male at La V^ega on May 25, 

 1904, reports that it is found only in the heaviest and densest forests, 

 and because of its strictly nocturnal habits it is extremely hard to 

 obtain. Mr. Link secured a single young bird on May 28, at Pasadita. 

 This specimen, being in moult from the downy stage, is useless for 

 comparison, but Messrs. Bangs and Zappey say that their specimen 

 differs from continental examples in being much paler, and they ac- 

 cordingly adopt D'Orbigny's name, based on the Cuban bird, as the 

 proper subspecific appellation of the supposed form. But Mr. Ridg- 

 way, while admitting the peculiarities of their Isle of Pines specimen, 

 finds himself unable to satisfactorily divide the species on this basis, 

 and it seems a safer course to follow this conclusion for the present. 



82. Tyto perlata furcata (Temminck). White-winged Barn Owl. 



Strix furcata Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide Gund- 



lach). 

 Strix pratincola furcata Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 100 (I. of Pines, in geog. 



distr.). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 202 (Santa Sevilla; food). 



— Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Jan. 24, 1914 (I. of Pines; habits). 

 "Cuban Barn Owl" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 191 1, 13, and XXX, 1913, 125 



(Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines), 164 (Santa Barbara to Nueva Gerona). 

 Tyto perlata furcata Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 602 (Santa 



Sevilla, in geog. distr.; meas.). 



Six specimens: McKinley, Nueva Gerona, Los Indios, and Pasadita. 



Two of these six skins are very pale above as compared with the 

 others, while the amount of spotting below also varies to some extent. 

 Only one individual shows any dark marking on the tail, and this is 



