BIEDS OV NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMBEICA. 617 



Gal&pagos Archipelago (James, Indefatigable, Abingdon, Albe- 

 irle, and South Seymour islands; Chatham Island?). 



Strvc- punctatisdma Gray, in Gould, Zool. Voy. "Beagle," iii, 1841, 34, pi. 4 

 (Jamea Island, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 55.— Kaup, Jardine'a Contr. Orn., 1852, 118; Trans., 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1859, 246.— Habtlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 170.— 

 Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 182. — ScLATERand Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lend., 1870, 323 (Indefatigable I., Galapagos). — Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., ix, 1876, 494 (James, Indefatigable, and Abingdon islands). — Ridg- 

 WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 120, 122, 123, 124 (James, Indefatigable, 

 and Abingdon islands); xix, 1896, 583 (James, Indefatigable, and Abingdon 

 islands; synonymy; reprint of orig. descr.). — Rothschild and Habtbbt, 

 Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 175 (Chatham I.?; crit.); ix, 1902, 405 (Albemarle 

 Island; crit.), 417 (Albemarle, Indefatigable, James, and Abingdon is- 

 lands). — Snodgbass and Heller, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., v, 1904, 266 (James 

 Indefatigable, South Seymour, Abingdon, and Albemarle islands; crit.; 

 descr. eggs). 



[Strix] punctatissi'ma Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 52, no. 566. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116.— Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 301. 



S[trix] punctatissima Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 41. — RoTHSOHiiiD and Hartbet, 

 Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 202 (Galapagos). 



Strix flammea (not of Linnseus) Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, part 

 (Galapagos). 



\Strix flammed] ?. punctatissima Sh^rpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 297 (in 

 list of specimens). 



Aluco punctatissima Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 196. 



Aluco flammea punctatissima Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xiv, June 25, 

 1904, 89. 



T]yto] alba punctatissima Hartert, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), 

 Aug., 1913, 1040. 



Family BUBONID^. 



THE EASED OWLS. 



=Bubonidss Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vii, 116. — Shabpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1874, 1; Rev. ClasBif. Birds, 1891, 79; Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 280. 



=:Buionidae Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 236, 301. 



=Asionidx Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 403. 



=Strigidx Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 502. 



=Stnginx Newton, Diet. Birds, 1894, 674, in text. 



Striges with inner (second) toe much shorter than middle (third) 

 e, the claw of the latter not pectinated or serrate on edge; feathers 

 the planta tarsi (if present) not reversed or recurved, but pointed 

 wnward like those of acrotarsium; outermost developed primary 

 3nth) shorter than eighth, and at least one (sometimes six) pri- 

 mes with inner webs emarginated or sinuated; tail usually more or 

 is rounded, rarely truncate (never emarginate) ; face more or less 

 ■cular, or at least not pointed below, where not conspicuously 

 ominent. 



Sternum with a manubrium, the metasternum 4-notched, the 

 srnal crest narrow; clavicles not united, the furcula free from the 



