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In daytime they could be approached closely enough to be 
shot with an auxiliary cartridge, while twice birds were 
killed with stones. At night they came to our camp fires, 
and one evening at Villamil, Albemarle, one alighted on the 
vessel. 
The stomach of a specimen, taken on Hood on June 26, 
contained the remains of a centipede, a Sooty Ground Finch, 
and grasshoppers. 
Certain individuals, taken on Hood in September and 
October, had long parasitic worms between the skull and 
the skin covering it. | 
4. Strix punctatissima: GALAPAGos BARN OWL 
Abingdon, Albemarle, Indefatigable, James, Narborough, 
and Seymour islands. 
Although its chief stronghold was southern Indefatigable, 
where five were taken in one night, this barn owl was also 
observed and taken by us on Albemarle and Narborough. 
Mr. Beck reported them in the elevated, humid, fertile 
portions of southern Narborough in early April. A female, 
with slightly enlarged ovaries, was killed with a stick on the 
night of April 6 at 1500 feet elevation on Tagus Cove Moun- 
tain, Albemarle. At Santo Tomas (elevation 1000 feet), in the 
moist region of southeastern Albemarle, one flew into the 
house of the major-domo of the ranch on a foggy night in 
August. 
In the moist region of southern Indefatigable on Novem- 
ber 13, one was taken about midnight at 700 feet elevation. 
It alighted on a branch close above us, although we had no 
camp fire. A few nights before Mr. Beck obtained two in the 
dry region. On the night of January 17, two were seen at 
our camp at 350 feet elevation. While spending the night of 
July 11 in the region just mentioned, I took three females at 
camp. Each one alighted on branches six or seven feet above 
the fire. There they sat until shot, turning their heads from 
side to side, and staring down with large wondering eyes at me 
and the fire. 
The only vocal sound I heard from this species was a hiss 
emitted by a wounded bird. Grasshoppers were found in 
their stomachs. 
