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February 6, 8, 9 and 12, 1917, and Loma Tina January 5, 1917. A 

 native brought him two young in the down with the adult at Tiibano 

 February 8, the young with new feathers appearing on back and 

 wings and being in color like the younger specimen in down secured 

 by Wetmore in Haiti. Kaempfer reported the lechuza fairly com- 

 mon and observed that he secured a female and two young in Decem- 

 ber. He sent six skins to the Tring Museum according to informa- 

 tion given us by Doctor Hartert. He records that flesh of this owl 

 made into a pomade was believed to cure asthma. Danforth found 

 this owl in a limestone cave at Los Tres Ojos de Agua, east of Santo 

 Domingo City, July 3, 1927. Ciferri obtained it at the Sabana San 

 Thome, San Juan September 1, 1928 and Moca in April, 1929. 



In Haiti this owl was recorded at Dondon by Saint-Mery, and 

 is probably the species represented by the " Oiseaux nocturnes " re- 

 ported by the same author to inhabit a cavern at the Bay of Bar- 

 aderes. Abbott secured a female in the cave known as Trou de Bon 

 Dieu near Port-de-Paix, April 17, 1917, and a second female in a 

 mangrove swamp near Petit Port a l'Ecu on May 9, 1917. In his 

 notes he remarks that this species was heard calling nearly every- 

 where at night, and that he noted it on Isle Tortue. Beebe says that 

 one came about his schooner anchored off Bizoton on six different 

 evenings, flying about and swooping at the light. He secured a 

 female alive on shore. 



Three miles west of L'Acul on April 4, 1927, Wetmore flushed one 

 of these owls in a small cave in a limestone formation. The bird 

 retreated first to the depths of the cave and then came fluttering out 

 overhead into the light of the sun. A ledge of rock twenty feet 

 from the cave floor was evidently a favored perch as below it were 

 quantities of bones from regurgitated pellets of which a small bag 

 full were taken for identification. On April 7, 1927 Dr. G. N. 

 Wolcott presented a male that had been killed in his yard in Port- 

 au-Prince. Barn owls were heard calling regularly at night about 

 Dr. G. F. Freeman's residence, Villa Keitel. One was heard in 

 camp on the Riviere Jaquisy April 8, and another April 10 near the 

 head of the Riviere Chotard on La Selle. On the following morn- 

 ing while investigating a sink hole called by the natives Trujin, an 

 opening forty or fifty feet deep and one hundred fifty feet long 

 <vith an arch across the center, a barn owl was observed resting 

 like the true bird of Minerva on a round column of stone twenty- 

 five feet below the surface level. Its gaze was directed downward 

 and it paid no attention whatever to those above as they circled the 

 opening looking for a means of descent. This was below Morne La 

 Visite at an elevation of nearly 2000 meters. On April 15 a tall 

 slender pine with many branches was cut, and the limbs trimmed a 



