Tyto alba furcata (Tenminck) 



Strix furcata Temaiinck TYPE 



No number. Leiden. T^ing 330, tail 1^2, culraen from 

 cere 2vV.O, tarsus — , middle toe minus claw ^.0,3, 

 "Cuba". 



Mounted bird in good state of preservation but poorly 

 postured and for this reason tarsi cannot be 

 measured properly. 



Plate (A32) in much too uniformly yellov;, - there 

 being a good deal of gray and white in the mottled 

 portions of the back <Sc vdngs; tail from above 

 creamy v^hite vdth mottling in the form of broken 

 bars across all rectrices but decreasing outwardly 

 until only a bare t.ace present on outer pair of 

 rectrices. 



Strix f lammea americanna 



Cat. No. 5, fig. PI. col. 132 



Voy. Pttppig Cuba 



See also Schlegel, II, striges, p. 5, 1862, under "5". 



A. J. Van Rossem 



