a8) BANGS — SHORT-EARED OWLS. 97 
1919 
Asio flammeus sanfordi subsp. nov. 
Type, from Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, adult ?, original no. 5054, 
Brewster-Sanford Collection in American Museum of Natural History, col- 
lected December 17, 1915, by R. H. Beck. 
Distribution. — The Falkland Islands. 
Characters. — Similar to A. flammeus flammeus and A. f. breviauris, but 
decidedly smaller; tips of longer primaries narrower and more pointed; 
general coloration darker; upper parts, from neck backward, including 
scapulars, wings and their coverts, more mottled, due to the pale markings 
at the sides of the feathers being more irregular in shape. 
Size. — Four adult topotypes, both sexes: wing, 283 (276-288); tail, 
139.5 (136-146); culmen from cere, 17 (16-18) mm. 
Lately another very interesting and strongly marked form 
has been described by Chapman from the Bogoté Savanna: — 
Asio flammeus bogotensis Chapman. 
Asio flammeus bogotensis Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
XXXIV, 370, 1915, Bogota Savanna, Colombia. 
Distribution. — The Bogoté Savanna (and high Ecuador ?). 
Characters. — A very distinct subspecies, at once distinguished from the 
other races of Asio flammeus by its general dark coloration and the much 
more uniform brown of the upper parts, with but little ochraceous or 
whitish intermixed. 
Size. — Three adult topotypes: wing, 298.5 (295-303); tail, 141 (140- 
143); culmen from cere, 19 (18-20) mm. 
Nine months after Chapman’s description appeared, Chubb 
named a short-eared owl from high Ecuador, as Aszo galapa- 
goensis aequatorialis (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXXVI, 46, Feb., 
1916, Pichincha, Ecuador, 11,000 feet altitude). He compared 
his bird only with the peculiar little species of the Galapa- 
gos, — Asio galapagoensis (Gould), — apparently overlooking 
