242 BULLETIN 15 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Abbott recorded it in numbers on the northwest peninsula. Cory 

 records specimens near Petionville February 27 and 28, and March 1, 

 1881, and one near Port-au-Prince February 21, 1881. There is one 

 in the United States National Museum from his collection taken at 

 Port-au-Prince, December 31, 1880. He reported it common about 

 the saline lakes of the Cul-de-Sac, and it still remains in numbers 

 about the Etang Saumatre according to Abbott and Bartsch. 

 Bartsch secured one at Trou Caiman April 4, 1917, and Abbott took 

 two at the same point March 10, 1918. Bartsch collected a series of 

 five skins between Port-au-Prince and St. Marc April 20, 1917, and 

 two more birds the following day at St. Marc which were put in 

 alcohol. He recorded others at Thomazeau April 2, Glore April 3, 

 and near Port-au-Prince April 25 and 27. Wetmore found them at 

 Damien March 29, 1927, Sources Puantes March 29, La Tremblay 

 April 7, and Las Cahobes April 20. He had confidently expected to 

 find them abundant in the central plain near Hinche but saw none 

 there. 



Saint-Mery recorded this species at Dondon. Abbott collected six 

 skins at Baie des Moustiques from March 31 to May 4, 1917, and 

 seven more at an altitude of 450 meters near Bombardopolis March 21 

 to 26 of the same year. One from the first locality had eaten a 

 lizard and a scorpion, and one from the second contained insects 

 and a mouse. 



At Bais des Moustiques May 4, 1917 Abbott secured four sets of 

 eggs. These are white, with a distinct gloss and are rounded in 

 form. A set of two was fresh. They measure 31.6 by 26.7, and 32.0 

 by 26.4 mm. A set of three eggs also fresh, measures 28.3 by 25.3, 

 29.5 by 24.8 and 29.7 by 24.6 mm. A second set of three, apparently 

 heavily incubated, measures 30.9 by 26.4, 31.0 by 26.5, and 31.5 by 

 26.3 mm. Four addled eggs from a burrow four feet long dug just 

 beneath the surface of the earth in a meadow, at which both parents 

 were taken measure 32.0 by 27.0, 32.1 by 26.9, 32.2 by 26.5 and 32.2 by 

 26.7 mm. The two eggs secured by Wetmore at Constanza are 

 slightly larger, measuring 32.9 by 28.3 and 33.7 by 27.1 mm. 



Danforth in 1927 recorded this burrowing owl at Port-au-Prince 

 and Les Caves. Bond says that he found this bird at Port-de-Paix 

 in March, and further that he did not encounter it on Tortue Island. 

 Poole and Perrygo secured skins at Fort Liberte February 11 and 18 

 and Pont Sonde February 26, 1929. Further they took one at Massa- 

 crin on Gonave Island March 9, though Bond says he did not find 

 it on that island. 



Vieillot says that the eyes in the male are a very vivid yellow 

 while those of the female are paler ; Abbott, in a male shot at Bom- 

 bardopolis March 21, 1917, records the iris as yellow, bill greenish 

 yellow and feet greenish. 



