502 APPEyDIX. 



f. Smaller, with bill chiefly or entirely black or dusky (rarcl}- 5-cllowish or 

 oranf:je at base). 



Similar in color of plumage to C. passcrina pallesccus, but still paler, with 

 upper i)arta more ashy ; wing 3.10-3.30 (3.21), exposed culmen .40-.47 

 (.43), tarsus .G0-.C4 (.G2). Jfab. Bahamas ; Greater Antilles ? 



C. passerina babamensis (Mayn.). Bahaman Ground Dove.' 



(32.) Page 252, after subgenus Tinnunculus Vieili,., insert: 



359.1. Falco tinnunculus Li.w. Kestrel.' 

 Adult male: Top of head and hind neck bluish gray, with narrow blackish 

 shaft-Btreaks; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts vinaceous-einnamon or cinna- 

 monrufous, marked with transverse cordate spots or bars of black ; rump, upper 

 tail coverts, and tail bluish gray, the latter tipped with whitish and crossed by 

 a subtcrminal band of black ; forehead and under parts buffy whitish or buffy, 

 marked on chest with streaks of dusky and on sides and flanks with oval or 

 tear-shaped spots of the same. Adult female : Above light rufous or cinnamon, 

 including the parts which are bluish gray in the male ; head and neck streaked 

 with dusky, and other portions, including tail, barred with the same ; beneath 

 much as in the male. Length about 12.50-15.00. wing 8.40-0.20, tail 6.70-7.00, 

 tarsus 1.30-1. GO. The j'oung male is said to resemble the adult female. 



(33.) Page 261, to replace all after first clau.so under " </'" : 



c'. The darker markings fine and numerous, giving the plumage a delicatel}- 

 pencilled aspect. JJab. Northwestern Mexico, and contiguous portion of 

 United States in Arizona and New Mexico. 



373/. M. asio cineraceus RiDow. Mexican Screech Owl.' 

 e'. The dai-ker markings coarse and heavy, producing a mai'bled anil spotted 

 appearance to the plumage. JIab. Eastern foot-hills of Kocky Mountains 

 in Colorado and New Mexico. 



373^. M. asio aikeni Brewst. Aiken's Screech Owl.' 



(34.) Pago 262, substitute the following for matter under " </'" : 



d'. Darker colored, without white largely predominating on under parts and 

 upper parts never light buffy gray or pale grayish cinnamon, 

 e'. Coloration identical with that of il/. a. bcndirei, but size much greater; 

 wing 6.0G-7.50, tail 3.80-4.25. Hab. Between eastern slope of Cas- 

 cade Mountains and western slope of Rocky Mountains, in Oregon, 

 "Washington, Idaho, and Montana. 

 373/1. M. asio macfarlanei I>iiewst. MacFarlane's Screech Owl." 



1 Chamirpclin bahamcniilt Matn., Am. Exchange nnil Mnrt, iii. No. 8, Fob. 5, 1SS7, 69. 

 » Fnlco Unnunculu, LiNN., S. N. ed. 10, i. 175S, 90. (.Sco Conv, Auk, v. Jan. 1S88, 110; April, 1888, 205.) 

 » ^frr,n^fnpt aoio rinnracciit Rinr.n-., Auk, xii. Oct. 1895, 390. (= .V. a. trichopnin of first edition and of 

 recent authors, but not Srnps trichnpith Waoi.er.) 



* Megatcopt atio aikeni Brewst., Auk, viii. April, 1891, 13. 



' Mejaicopt atio macfartanci Brewst., Auk, viii. April, 1S91, MO. 



