BIEDS OP NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 615 



[Strix]flammea nigrescena Coby, List Birds West Ind. , 1885, 21, part (St. Vincent). 

 Strix flammea nigrescens Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 464, part (St. Vincent); Birds 



West Ind., 1889, 187, part (St. Vincent). 

 Strix nigrescens Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, part (St. Vincent; 



Grenada).— Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 272 (St. 



Vincent, Bequia, Union I., Carriacou, and Grenada, Lesser Antilles; habits; 



descr. nest and eggs). 

 Aluco flammea nigrescens Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, xiv, June 25, 1904, 



89, 90 (St. Vincent). 

 Hybris nigrescens noctividus Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 



1911, 57 (St. Georges, Grenada; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 

 (?) Strix flammea (not of Lirmseus) Fbilden, Ibis, 1889, 488 (Barbados). 



TYTO INSULARIS NIGRESCENS (Lawrence). 

 DOUimCA BARir OWL. 



Similar to T. i. insularis, but upper parts usually with white dots 

 )solete or very minute, never so well developed, the general surface 

 ore uniformly dusky on account of more minute vermiculations ; 

 ider parts less heavily spotted, the spots, as a rule, less numerous. 

 Adult male.— Length (skins), 285-333 (309); wing, 230.5-235 

 !32.7); tail, 103.5-104 (103.7); culmen, from cere (19.5); tarsus, 

 ); middle toe, 29-30.5 (29.7).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 300-335 (317.5); wing, 240-247 

 !43.5); tail, 110.5-113.5 (112); cuhnen, from cere, 18.5-20 (19.2); 

 ,rsus, 52-53 (52.5); middle toe, 29.5-31 (30.2)." 

 Island of Dominica (Roseau), Lesser Antilles; island of Santa 

 ucia ? 



Strix flammea var. nigrescens Lawrence, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., i, July 30, 1878, 



64 (Doroinica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); i, 1879, 487, part 



(Dominica); iii, 1880, 257 (Dominica; habits). 

 [Strix'] flammea nigrescens Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21, part (Dominica). 

 Strix flammea nigrescens Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 464, part (Dominica; synonymy; 



reprint of original descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 187, part (Dominica). — 



Verrill (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Ac. Sci., viii, 1892, 326 (Dominica). 

 Strix nigrescens Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100, part (Dominica).— 



GuRNEY, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 43, part (Dominica). 

 [Strix'] nigrescens Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301 (Bominica). 

 Aluco nigrescens Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 1911, 57, in 



text (Dominica). 

 T[yto] a[lba] nigrescens Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxi, Jan. 25, 1913, 38, 



in text (Dominica). 

 T[yfo] alba nigrescens Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft vui (bd. ii, 2), 



1913, 1040. 



"■ Two specimens, from Dominica. Two specimens, of unknown sex, doubtfully 

 pposed to have been obtained on Santa Lucia, measure as follows: Wings 231-240 

 35.5); tail, 98-103.5 (101.7); culmen, from cere, 17.5-19 (18.2); tarsus, 51.5-53.5 

 2.5); middle toe, 29.5-30 (29.7). Owing to the uncertainty as to the amoiint of 

 dividual variation in this supposed form, it is impossible to tell, without a much 

 rger number of specimens, whether examples from Dominica and Santa Lucia are 

 fferent from one another or not. 



