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22. Strix flammea bargei, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. iii. 

 p. xiii; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 124. 



Face white, a dark brown spot in front of the eye. Upper sur- 

 face the same as in most of the European specimens. Beneath 

 white, sparsely spotted with dark brown. Tail pale greyish 

 isabelline, spotted with dark grey, and with four distinct 

 blackish bars. Iris deep brown. Bill whitish flesh-colour, 

 toes brown, claws deep brown. Total length about 12 inches, 

 wing 9*7, tail 4*3, tarsus 2*2. 



This insular form is entirely different from the Barn Owls 

 of the "West Indies, and also from the South- American form. 

 In colour it is similar to many specimens from Europe, 

 and also to some from the Pacific Islands, but in its small 

 size it is only to be compared with the Galapagos species, 

 which, however, is of an entirely different colour. I have 

 only one specimen, which was caught for me by order of 

 Mijnheer Harry Barge, Governor of the Dutch West 

 Indies. 



This Barn Owl is said to be not very rare in some of the 

 rocky parts of Curacao. Two specimens sent by Herr Lud- 

 wig agree with my own. 



I do not know whether this Owl occurs on Aruba, but 

 there appears to be another species of Owl on that island of 

 only about half the size of it, and of an ashy colour. 

 There is said to be another Owl on Curacao, but of what 

 kind I do not know. 



23. Columba gymnophthalma, Temm. ; Hartert, Bull. B. 

 O. C. iii. p. xii; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 123. 



Although there are examples of this Pigeon in the Museums 

 of Paris and Leyden, and one stuffed specimen in the British 

 Museum, neither its exact habitat nor anything of its life- 

 history was known, and it has been several times confounded 

 with Columba pic azuro from Brazil, for instance by Herr v. 

 Pelzeln (Orn. Bras. p. 274). 



It was first described in 1811 by Temminck in Madame 

 Knip's work, ' Les Pigeons/ on p. 48, and the figure 

 (pi. xviii.) clearly represents this species, although the granu- 

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