1886.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 465 



Strix Jlammea W7y.x. fratineola Bd. Bwr. & RiDGW. Hist. N.Am. Bds. 



p. 13, III (1S74).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 125 (18S0). 

 Strix Jiammea pratincola CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 21 (1SS5). 



This form occurs in the Bahama Ishmds. 



Strix glaucops Kaup. 



Athene domitiicensis Bp. Consp. I, p. 38 (1S50). — Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 



231. 

 Strix glaucops ''Kavp, Contr. Orn. p. 118 (1S52)"; ib. Tr. Z. S. IV, p. 



246. — Pelz. J. f. O. 1872, p. 23. — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, 



p. 117 (1S85) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 21 (1885). 

 Strix (Athene) dominicensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI. p. 90 



(1867). 

 Strix Jlammea Sharpe. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 292 (1875). 

 Strix dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, p. 95 (1883). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above dark brown, shading into 

 orange-rufous on the side of the neck; quills showing inner webs 

 brownish ; outer webs dull orange-rufous, banded with brown ; entire 

 underparts pale orange-rufous, mottled with zigzag marking of light 

 brown, whitening somewhat on the throat and abdomen; face deep 

 gray; an ante-orbital spot of black ; circle of feathers around the 

 face dark chestnut, bordered with black on the throat; tarsus not 

 feathered to the feet. 



The sexes are apparently similar. 

 Length, 13.50; wing, 10; tail, 4.60; tarsus, 3.45. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. 



Genus Pseudoscops Kaup. 

 Psendoseops Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 769. 



Pseudoscops grammicus (Gosse). 



Ephialfes ffranimicus Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 19 (1S47). 



Pseudoscops grammicus Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 769. — ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 



So. — Albrecht,J. f O. 1862, p. 204. — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 51 



(1869). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 116 (1S73). — A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 110(1881). — Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 



21 (1SS5). 

 Scops fframniicHS Bp. Consp. I, p. 46 (1850). — Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 205. 

 Asio grammicus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. 11, p. 242 (1S75). 



''Adult female. General colour above sandy-buft", transversely 

 vermiculated with dark brown, more distinctly on the back and 

 scapular feathers, some of which are mesially streaked with dark 



