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the Asio flammeus bogotensis Chapman, else he certainly would, 
have made reference to it. I have seen no specimens from 
Ecuador, and so cannot speak positively, but there is nothing 
in Chubb’s diagnosis to distinguish his aequatorialis from bogoten- 
sis. I cannot believe that. aequatorialis, even if different from 
bogotensis, is a subspecies of the extraordinary island species 
Asio galapagoensis, which has cross-barred, as well as striped, 
underparts, and has broadly streaked legs. 
