604 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Strix flammea var. americana] e.furcata Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 299 (syn- 

 onymy). 

 Strix pratincola furcata Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 125 (Cuba). — 



CoHY, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100 (Cuba; Isle of Pines; Cayman 



Brae; Jamaica); Auk, is, 1892, 272 (Cuba).— Chapman, BuU. Am. Mas. 



N. H., iv, 1892, 296 (near Trinidad, s. Cuba).— Bangs and Zaepey, Am. Nat., 



xxxis, 1905, 202 (Isle of Pines). 

 Aluco flammea furcata Eothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, xiv, no. cviii, June 25, 



1904, 89. 

 [Strix] flamm£afuscata Cokt, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and revised ed., 1886), 21 



(Cuba; Jamaica). 

 Tlyto] alba furcata Habtebt, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft, viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 



1913, 1039. 

 Strix cubx Beehm (C. L.), Handb. Natur. Vog. Deufschlands, 1831, 104 (Cuba). 

 Strix pratincola (not of Bonaparte) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 23. — Sclatee, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 79 (Jamaica; crit.); Kev. List Birds Jamaica, 



1910, 12. — ^Albeecht, JoTU-n. fur Om., 1862, 204 (Jamaica). — ^Mabch, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 153 (Jamaica). 

 {1)Strix flammea pratincola Menegatjx, Rev. Fiang. d'Om., no. 2, 1909, 23 (Figua- 



bas, e. Cuba). 

 Nyctea nivea (not Strix nivea Thunberg) Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1855, 466 



(Cuba; crit.; see Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 403). 

 [Strix] perlata (not of Lichtenstein) Gbat, Hand-list, i, 1869, 52, no. 572, part. 

 [Strix] flammea (not of Linnaeus) Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116, 



part. 



TYTO PERLATA LUCAYANA Riley. 



BAHAUA BARIT OWL. 



Similar to T. p. furcata but reiniges and tail darker (not dist_nctly 

 different in coloration from rest of upper parts), and upper parts 

 with relatively more of ochraceous-buff and less of mottled grayish; 

 similar also to T. p. pratincola, but with relatively more of ochraceous- 

 buff on upper parts than in the average of that form, white specks 

 on upper parts less distinct, dusky spots on inner webs of outermost 

 primaries smaller (sometimes obsolescent) , and feet larger. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 355-373 (364); wing, 324-329 

 (326.5); tail, 132.5-135 (132.7); cuhnen (from cere), 22; tarsus, 

 74-75 (74.5); middle toe, 37-40 (38.5)." 



Adult female. — ^Length (skin), 350;^ wing, 352-356 (354);" tail, 

 139-149 (144) ;« culmen (from cere), 22-24.5 (23.2) ;'' tarsus, 74.5;* 

 middle toe, 39.5.'' 



Bahama Islands (New Providence; Inagua?;" Abaco?;= Androsl)." 

 Strix flammea var.? Beyant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 65 (Inagua and 



New Providence islands, Bahamas). 

 Strix flammea var. pratincola (not Stnx pratincola Bonaparte) Cost, Birds Baliama 

 Is., 1880, 125 (New Providence Island).— Bonhote, Ibis, 1899, 516 (New 

 Providence). 

 [Strix] flammea pratincola Coky, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21 (Bahamas). 



a Two specimens. 



>> One specimen. 



c I have not been able to examine specimens from these islands. 



