A^O Cory o/i the Birds of the West Indies. [October 



breast brown mixed with white; rest of underparts dull white, the 

 feathers lined with brown; primaries dai-k brown marked with 

 w-hite on the outer webs; tail dark brown, showing an indistinct 

 band of white on the under surface; bill horn-color. 

 Length, S; wing, 5.50; tail, 3; tarsus, 1.25; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Glaucidium Boie. 



Glaucidium BoiE, Isis, 1S26, p. 976. 



*^laucidium siju (D'Okh.). 



Noctua sijii D'Orb. in La Sagra's Ilist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. t,t, (1S40). — 

 GuNDL. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 318 (1857). 



Athnic siJH Gray, Gen. Eds. L p- -S (1S44). — Cass. Cat. Strig. Phila. 

 Mus. p. 13. 



Nyctalc siju Bp. Consp. I, p. 54 (1850). — Strickl. Orn. Svn. p. 177. 



Strix haiHDicnsis Light. Mus. Berol. unde. 



Glai/cidi/tin Jtavaiicnse Kaup, Contr. Orn. p. 103 (1S52). 



Glaucidiuin siju Cau. J. f. O. 1855, p. 59. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. VIL p. 306 (1S60). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 226 

 (1865).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 42 (1S69).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1S71, 

 p. 375. — RiDGW. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1S73, p. 65. — Scl. & Salv. 

 Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 117 (1S73). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 59; ib. 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 193 (1875). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 21 

 (18S5). 



Sp. Char. — \'erv small. Top of head pale brown, the feathers delicately 

 dotted with dull white; face dull white mixed with brownish ; throat 

 dull white, shading into mixed light brown and white on the breast; 

 underparts white, the feathers streaked with dark brown; thighs 

 rufous brown; under tail-coverts white; primaries dark brown, 

 dotted and blotched with white, heaviest on the basal portions ; back 

 and wing-coverts dull brown, mottled with pale brown; upper sur- 

 face of tail-feathers dark brown, narrowly banded with brownish 

 white ; bill pale. 



A female in my collection has the entii-e upper surface reddish 

 brown, with the feathers on the head unspotted. 



Length, 7; wing, 4; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .75; bill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Speotyto Geoger. 



Spcotyio Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 226, 1S42. 



