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Total length about 12 inches [about 305 mm.], wing 9.7 [246.4 mm.], 

 tail 4.3 [109.2 mm.], tarstis 2.2 [55.9 mm.]."" 

 Island of Curasao, Dutch West Indies. 



Strix Jlammea bargei Hakteet, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, no. in, Dec, 1892, p. xiU 



(Curasao, Dutch West Indies; coll. Tring Mus.); Ibis, 1893, 124 (reprint), 



322 (crit.); Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 304 (crit.). 

 S[trix] fiammea bargei Rothschild and Hartbrt, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 405, in 



text. 

 [Strix] bargei Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301. 

 Aluco pratincola bargei Cosy, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., Oct. 25, 1909; 206 



(Curasao). 

 T\yto] alba bargei Hartbrt, Vog. Palaark. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 



1913, 1039. 



TYTO GLATTCOPS (Kaup). 



TTATTTAW BAKIT OWL. 



Differing from all other American forms of the genus in the sil- 

 very gray face and absence of white specks on upper parts, and 

 from all others except T. punctatissima in having transverse bars on 

 lower parts. 



Adidt male? — Face silvery gray, faintly tinged on anterior portion 

 (especially lores and superciliary region) with pale vinaceous; a brown- 

 ish black area in front of eye; facial circle bright cinnamon-rufous, 

 the feathers along posterior mai^in of lower portion tipped with 

 black; pileum and hindneck finely and densely vermiculated (trans- 

 versely) with light brown and dusky, producing, viewed from a dis- 

 tance, a uniform duU dark grayish brown effect; back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts similar but the vermiculations coarser; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries coarsely vermiculated and mottled with 

 dusky and ochraceous-buff or light tawny, the latter predominating on 

 some of the middle coverts, the secondaries with indications of several 

 transverse bands of dusky grayish brown; outer webs of primaries 

 ochraceous-buff or light tawny, mottled with dusky grayish brown, 

 and with irregular, broken, quadrate spots of the latter; tail light 

 tawny coarsely vermiculated and mottled with dusky and crossed by 

 about five or six narrow bands of dusky; under parts ochraceous- 

 buff, broken by irregular transverse bars of dusky; length (skin), 

 330; wing, 255; tail, 127; culmen (from cere), 21.5; taisus, 60; 

 middle toe, 33." 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo). 



Strix glaucops Katjp, Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 118 ("Jamaica, " i. e. Haiti or 

 Santo Domingo; coll. Brit. Mus.); Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1862, 246.— 

 Pelzeln, Joum.furOm., 1872, 23 (crit.).— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 

 1875, 302 (in list of specimens).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 117; 



o Not having seen a specimen of this form, I am obliged to quote the description 

 given by Hartert in the Ibis, 1893, p. 322. 

 6 The adult fomale not seen by me. 

 ' One specimen. 



