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ON NEW AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[May 28, 



representative. It becomes therefore necessary to bestow a new name 

 upon the latter ; and we have great pleasure in calling it Gymnoglmix 

 lawrencii, after our friend Mr. Lawrence, who has so well pointed 

 out its distinctive characters. 



Fig. 1 



Foot of G. nudipes. 



Foot of G. Imvrcncii. 



The synonymy of the only two known species of tlie genus 

 Gymnoglaux will therefore stand as follows ; — 



(1) Gymnoglaux nudipes. 



Strix nudipes, Daud. Tr. d'Orn. ii. p. 199 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 

 p. 269 ; Vieill. Ois. de I'Am. Sept. i. p. 45, t. 16. 



Gymnoglaux nudipes, A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 04, t. 1. 



Syrnium nudipes, Kp. Trans. Z. S. iv. p. 250. 



Gymnoglaux newtoni, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. viii. p. 258. 



Major : supra fusca nigra vermiculata : tarsis partim plumosis, 

 dimidio inferiore nudo. (Cf. fig. 1.) 



Hab. Porto Rico {Mauge) ; St. Thomas (Riise et Swift) ; S. 

 Croix {Newton^. 



(2) Gymnoglaux lawrencii. (Plate XXIX.) 



Noetua nudipes, Lembeye, Aves de Cuba, p. 23, t. 4. f. 2. 



Gymnoglaux nudipes, Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 465; Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y, vii. p. 257; Gundlach, Repert. F. N. i. p. 226. 



Minor : supra fusca unicolor, maculis albis aspersa : f arsis fere 

 omnino nudis. (Cf. fig. 2.) 



Hab. Cuba (Lembeye et Gundlach). 



Of this latter species we have examined two specimens in a series 



. of American Strigidse, kindly submitted to our inspection by the 



authorities of the Smithsonian Institution. One of these was col- 



