'SS6.] Cory on the Birds of the West I/iih'es. A7 I 



Speotyto dominicensis Cory. 



Speotyto cum'cularta Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 142 (1S75). — 

 Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 118 (18S5). 



Athene cHiiicularia Brace, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XIX, p. 240 (1877) 

 (?) 



Speotyto cum'cularta dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 

 154 (1881) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage brown ; the head marked with streaks 

 of dull white; feathers of the nape showing a sub-terminal bar of 

 dull white; back mottled and barred with dusky white ; quills brown 

 tipped with dull white and barred with pale brown ; secondaries 

 marked on the outer web; tail brown, tipped with buff white and 

 banded; ear-coverts brown; cheeks dull white; throat and upper 

 neck dull white, separated from each other by a mark of sandy buff, 

 barred with brownish; underparts dull white, barred with brown, 

 the bars becoming narrower on the lower part of the body; thighs 

 buff; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, sometimes spotted with 

 brown near the outer edge, and becoming dull white on the edge of 

 the wing; tarsus feathered in front to the foot; iris yellow. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 8; wing, 6; tail, 2.50; tarsus, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Haiti. Bahamas.? 



It is possible that the species mentioned by Brace was the 

 Florida form. I have nev^er seen a specimen from the Bahama 

 Iskinds. 



Speotyto guadeloupensis (Ridgw.). 



Speotyto cunicularia var. guadeloupensis RiDGW. in Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Am. Bds. Ill, p. 90 (1874).— Coues, Bds. N. W. p. 322 



(1874). 

 Speotyto guadeloupensis Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 147 (1875). — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 21 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — "Primaries without broad or regular bars of whitish on either 

 web; primary-coverts plain brown. Brown markings on the lower 

 parts regularly transverse, and equal in extent to the white. White 

 spots on the upper parts very small, reduced to mere specks on the 

 dorsal region. 



"Wing, 6.40; tail, 3.4o;culmen, .60; tarsus, 1.82; middle toe, .85. 

 Outer tail-feathers and inner webs of the primaries with the light 

 (ochraceous) bars only about one fourth as wide as the brown (dis- 

 appearing on the inner quills)." (Ridgw., orig. descr., 1. c.) 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe and St. Nevis. 



