BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 613 



Auk, iii, 1886, 465 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 188; Cat. 



West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, 131.— Gurnby, Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 43.— 



Vbreim, (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 359 (Santo 



Domingo). 

 [Strix] glaucops Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 52, no. 567. — Cory, List Birds West Ind., 



1885, 21.— Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301. 

 [Aluco'\fla'm,'meus glaucops Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 196. 

 T\yto\ alba glaucops Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 



1913, 1040. 

 Strix dominicensis (not of Gmelin) Haktlaub, Naumarmia, ii, 2 heft, 1852, 54 



(Santo Domingo).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, April, 1883, 95 (Santo 



Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory). — Reichbnow and Schalow, Joum. ftir Orn., 



1885, 458 (reprint of Cory's orig. descr.). 

 Strix Jlammea (not of Linnaeus) Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, 302, 



part (Santo Domingo). 



TYTO IWSULARIS INSULARIS (Pelzeln). 



ST. VmOENT BARN OWL. 



Small, like T. glaucops, but with face vinaceous-brown (more or 



IS deep) instead of silvery grkj, under parts spotted instead of 



rred, upper parts more or less conspicuously dotted with white, 



d general tone of coloration of upper parts much darker and less 



iform. 



Adults {sexes alilce). — Face Tinaceous-brown or cameo brown (more 



less deep), with an area of brownish black in front of eye; 

 3ial rim or border bright rufous-brown or hazel, spotted, in part at 

 ist, with brownish black, the feathers of lower portion (from ears 

 wnward) with larger terminal or subterminal spots of the same; 

 neral color of upper parts dusky, minutely vermiculated and freckled 

 th light gray, but the dusky usually greatly predominating, each 

 ither of back, scapulars, rump, upper taU-coverts, lesser wing- 

 verts, primary coverts, and alulae usually with a small subterminal 

 ot of white, the hindneck, sides of neck, and pileum with minute 

 ots or streaks of the same; intermixed with the general dusky 

 lor is a greater or less amount of tawny-ochraceous, this chiefly 



outer webs and hidden portion of scapulars, middle wing-coverts, 

 d basal portion of greater wii^-coverts ; anterior border of wing 

 roadly) mostly tawny or deep tawny-ochraceous, spotted with 

 ickish; primaries sooty black or dusky with large, more or less 

 avily mottled, spots of light tawny; tail dark sooty brown or dusky, 

 3re or less distinctly banded with light tawny or tawny-ochraceous, 

 e bands of the latter much broken (sometimes rendered nearly 

 solete) by dusky mottling; under parts cinnamon-buff (some- 

 nes deeper or more ochraceous posteriorly), with numerous irregular 

 lostly triangular or sagittate) spots of dusky, these sometimes 

 closing a smaller spot of whitish; biU duU yellow or yellowish 

 lite (in dried skins) ; iris dark brown; toes and lower part of tarsi 

 isky grayish brown (in dried skins). 



