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" The forms I exhibit are ; — ■ 



" 1. Eight specimens of Aluco flammea flammea from 



Geinsheim, Germany ; Stuhlweissenburg and 



Ternes Kuhn in Hungary ; and Chailey and 



Stanmer Park in Sussex. 

 " 2. Seven specimens of Aluco flammea kirchhofi from 



Tenby, Wales ; Tring, Long Marston, and St. 



Alban's in Hertfordshire 5 and Balcombe in Sussex, 

 "3. Six specimens of Aluco flammea ernesti from Iibanno, 



Bari, Seni, and Cagliari, in Sardinia. 

 " 4. Five specimens of Aluco flammea delicatula from Savu 



Island, Queensland, and Southern Australia. 

 " 5. One example of Aluco flammea bargei from the Island 



of Cura9ao. 

 " 6. One example of Aluco flammea fur cat a from the 



Island of Jamaica. 

 " 7 ', Three specimens of Aluco flammea contempta from 



Ecuador. 

 " 8. Two examples of Aluco flammea punctatissima from 



Albemarle Island, Galapagos Islands. 

 " 9. One Aluco flammea insularis from Cape Vcrd 



Islands. 

 " 10. One Aluco flammea Ihomensis from the Island of 



St. Thome, Bight of Benin. 

 "11. Two Aluco flammea nigrescens from the Island of 



St. Vincent, West Indies. 



" It has already been stated, and may be again, that, as 

 the dark continental form of Barn- Owl has often been taken 

 in Great Britain, it is our Barn-Owl; but this is not so, 

 for the dark Barn-Owls taken in this country, of which I 

 here exhibit two specimens to-night, have all been caught 

 on the south, east, or north-east coasts. The very rare 

 instances of dark Barn-Owls taken inland have always been 

 recorded from such places as might easily be reached from 

 the above-named coasts. This suggests that all the dark 

 Barn-Owls caught in Britain have been mere stragglers 

 blown over from the Continent. 



