with Descriptions of New Species 259 



The two species ma}^ be thus characterized — • 



Gymnoylaux nudlpes Dandin. Upper plumage umber brown, 

 each feather edged with light rufous; back and wings conspicuously 

 inarked with roundish white spots. 



Gymnoglaux Newloni Lawrence. Upper plumage rufous brown, the 

 head, neck, and upper part of the back crossed with narrow waving lines 

 of dark brown ; the back and wings without the white spots. 



©. Glauciclitiui sijw, (D'Orbig^ny.) 



Noctua siJK, D'Orbig. (R. de la Sagra), Hist. Nat. Cub. 1840, p. 33, 

 pi. 3 ; Lemb. Av. Isl. Cub. 1850, p. 128; Gund. Jour, 

 f. Orn. 1855, p. 465. 

 Athene sijti, Gray, Gen. of Birds. 

 Nyctale siju, Strick. Ornith. Syn. 1855, p. IVY. 

 Glaucidium sijti, Caban. Jour. f. Orn. Nov. 1855, p. 465. 



Male. Upper plumage umber brown, the head above and occiput 

 marked with numerous very small oval spots of white, on the front 

 tinged with rufous ; back and wing-coverts barred with pale rufous, the 

 greater coverts having roundish white spots on the outer webs near the 

 end ; primai'ies and secondaries marked with white spots on the edges 

 of their outer webs, and crossed with faint bars of dull rufous ; tail 

 brown, the two central feathers crossed with five narrow bars of white, 

 the same number of bars on the other tail feathers are rufous, becoming 

 white at the edge of the webs ; throat and sides of the head greyish 

 white ; on the lower neck and upper part of the breast is a bright rufous 

 band which extends around on the hind neck ; upper part of abdomen 

 white, blotched with bright rufous and barred on the sides with the same 

 color; lower part of abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the latter 

 with light brown centres ; legs densely clothed with greyish white 

 feathers, rufous on the thighs; bill and feet yellow. 

 Length about 7^ inches ; wings 4 ; tail Sj- ; tarsus 1. 



The female is much the same in pUimage, but is smaller ; the 

 wins: measures 3| in. and the tail but 21. The females in 



