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February 25, Pont Sonde February 26, Hinche March 17, Cerca-la- 

 Source March 27 and at En Cafe and Plaine Mapou on Gonave 

 Island March 3 to 14. 



There is a skin of the ani in the United States National Museum 

 from Navassa Island received December 3, 1890, from J. F. R. 

 Dufour, of Washington. E. L. Ekman has recorded this species 

 from Navassa in October, 1928. 



The ani is from 345 to 390 mm. long with a very long tail and 

 slender body. In life it appears black but in the hand shows 

 indistinct markings of bronze on the head and forepart of the 

 body, and faint violet reflections in the wings. The bill is greatly 

 compressed and arched so that the upper margin is a thin plate and 

 the whole bill is as high as the head. Like other cuckoos the ani 

 has two toes in front and two in back. 



Order STRIGIFORMES 



Family TYTONIDAE 



TYTO GLAUCOPS (Kaup) 

 HISPANIOLAN BARN-OWL, LECHTJZA, FRESAIE 



Strix glnucops Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Ornith., 1852, p. 118 (" Jamaica "= 

 Dominican Republic R3 ) . 



Lechuga, Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, cap. 7 ; Reprint, Madrid, 

 1851, p. 446 (many). 



Fresaye, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Fi-ang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 1, 1797, 

 p. 263 (Dondon). 



Oiseaux nocturnes, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, 

 vol. 2, 1798, p. 604 (Baraderes). 



?Owl, Ekman, Ark. for Bot, vol. 22A, No. 16, 1929, p. 7 (Navassa). 



Strix glaucops, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 117-118 

 (Puerto Plata) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 100 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic).— Tippenhaueb, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 319, 322 (listed).— 

 VEBRmL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 359 (listed). 



Strix dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, vol. 8, 1883, p. 95. 

 (Described as new from " Santo Domingo "= Puerto Plata. D. R.). 



Tyto glaucops, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, pp. 410-411 

 (listed).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, pp. 140-141; Beneath Tropic 

 Seas, 1928, p. 221 (Bizoton). — Richmond, Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 66, no. 

 17, 1917, p. 38 (mentioned).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 500 (Haiti).— Danfobth, Auk, 1929, p. 368 ( recorded ) .— Moltoni, 

 Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 316 (San Juan, Moca, specimens). 



Tyto alba glaucops, Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, pp. 181-182 (Domini- 

 can Republic). — Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 35, 1929, p. 101 (listed). 



Resident; fairly common in some localities. 



M Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, vol. 2, August, 1913, p. 1040, says " der Typus im British 

 Museum stammt von San Domingo." 



