BIgDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 



603 



'ten immaculate, sometimes buff and white, sometimes with three or 

 ur distinct but interrupted or iacomplete dusky bands; face white, or 

 jffy white, relieved by a spot of viaaceous-brown or burnt umber 

 . front of eye; facial ring white or white and buff, sometimes with 

 athers of lower portion tipped with brown or black; under parts 

 hite (sometimes more or less washed or suffused with ochraceous- 

 jff), sometimes whoUy immaculate, but usually sparsely flecked 

 ith triangular, sagittate, or rhomboidal specks of blackish; biU 

 ill yellowish; iris dark brown; toes and lower part of tarsi light 

 ■ayish brown (in dried skins) . 



Adultmale. — Length (skins), 355-385 (362) ; wing, 316-341 (332.5) ; 

 iH, 137-149 (143.2); cuhnen (from cere), 21.5-25.5 (23); tarsus, 

 r-74 (71.6); middle toe, 37-43 (39.5) .<» 



Adult female.— Length (skms), 365-430 (385); wing, 328-358 

 137.9); tail, 134r-152 (144.2); cuhnen (from cere), 23-25.5 (24.1); 

 irsus, 70.5-77 (73.3); middle toe, 39.5-43.5 (41.2).« 

 Islands of Cuba (GuamS.; El GuamS,; Cabanas; Eemfidios; Hol- 

 iln; Monte Verde; Consolaci6n del Sur; Trinidad; Figuabas), Isle 

 ' Pines (Santa Seville), Grand Cayman, Cayman Brae, and Jamaica 

 iloneague; St. Catherines; Priestmans River) . 



Strix'furcata Temminck, PI. Col., ii, livr. 73, July, 1827, pi. 432, and text (Cuba; 

 Mus. Pays-Bar).— D'Ohbignt, in La Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 84. — 

 GuNDLACH, Joum. fuT Om., 1855, 467 (Cuba); 1871, 268 (Cuba; crit.), 377 

 (Cuba; habits); Repert. Msico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 227. — Beewek, Proc. 

 Boat. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— Coby, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 140 (crit.). 



[Strix]furcata Gundlach, Joum. fur Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba). — Shakpe, Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 300 (Jamaica). 



Strix flammea, -vax. furcata Ridoway, in Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, iii, 1884, 12, footnote. 



Strix flammea furcata Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 464 (synonymy; descr.; geog. range), 

 502 (Grand Cayman); Birds West Ind., 1889, 187.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 127 

 (Jamaica; habits). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 124 (Jamaica). — ^Menegaitx, 

 Rev. Franc. d'Orn., no. 2, 1909, 23 (Figuabas, e. Cuba).— Lowe, Ibis, 1911, 

 149 (Grand Cayman). 



" Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



Tarsus, 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



ght adult males from Caha 



ur adult males from Jamaica 



FEMALES, 



ren adult females from Cuba 



le adult female from Isle^of Pines . . 

 ur adult females from Jamaica 



329.9 

 337.7 



337.1 



340 



338.7 



142.1 

 143.1 



143.6 



144 



145.5 



22.4 

 24.1 



24 



23.5 



24.4 



71.2 

 72.4 



73.4 



72 



73.2 



39.5 

 40.1 



41.4 



41 



41 



I am unable to detect any constant differences in coloration in specimens from 

 fferent islands. 



