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  Mr. 
  E. 
  Hartert 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  

  

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

   p. 
  xiii; 
  id. 
  Ibis, 
  1893, 
  p. 
  12 
  k 
  

  

  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 
  Curasao. 
  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 
  Curasao, 
  but 
  of 
  what 
  

   kind 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  know. 
  

  

  -V 
  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 
  jncazuro 
  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- 
  

  

  