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as Strix insularis by Von Pelzeln, who received specimens from St. Vincent. 

 We have in the Museum three specimens from the archipelago — two (D', E') 

 collected by M. Bouvier and one (F) by Mr. Darwin, the latter at Porto 

 Pray a, Santiago. These measure as follows — total length 13 inches, wing 

 ir7-12-9, tail 4-9-5-4, tarsus 2-55, middle toe 1-25-1-3. Bars on quills 

 five, on tail /we ; one of M. Bouvier's skins has only /ot«r bars on the tail, but 

 remains of five on the wing. All the Cape- Verde examples are very dark 

 both above and below ; and on one of them a decided trace of vermiculated 

 cross bars is apparent. 



Fernando Po. Fraser characterized the Barn- Owl from this locality as 

 Strix poensis (P. Z. S. 1842, p. 189). Dr. Hartlaub, in his ' Ornithologie 

 West-Afrika's,' says that he does not know where the type is to be found ; 

 nor have I been able to discover it. The British Museum has not got the 

 specimen, nor is it in Mr. Eyton's collection, where a great many of Eraser's 

 birds went. 



River Quanza, Angola. G'. Mr. Monteiro obtained a single skin in 

 this locality (Ibis, 1862, p. 336), and it is now in the National collection. 

 The general shade of colour is brownish grey, the spots not strikingly 

 distinct; bands on quills ^ve, on idiilfive ; facial disk pale, rufous, as usual, 

 in front of the eye ;■ all the lower plumes of the ruff broadly tipped with 

 brown, the general colour of the ruif pale orange ; under surface of body 

 white, washed with pale orange-buflF, much spotted with brown, forming 

 arrow-shaped or longitudinal streaks on many of the feathers. Total length 

 12 inches, wing 11*4, tail 4"5, tarsus 24, middle toe 1*3. 



The Lisbon Museum contains specimens from Angola— viz. Bengo 

 (^WelwitscK), Ambaca (^Anchieta^, and Loanda {Toulson^. 



S. W. Africa. Seiior Anchieta has obtained the Barn-Owl in two localities 

 in Mossamedes, to wit, Huilla and Gambos. It is abundant about Benguela, 



