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AduU maZe.— Length (skin), 395; wing, 305; tail, 157; culmen, 

 from cere, 21.5." 



AduU female.— Jjengbh (skins), 422-460 (440.5); wing, 340-347 

 (343.5); tail, 169.5-171 (170.2); culmen, from cere, 21.5-24 (22.7). » 



Cuba and Isle of Pines (La Vega) ; southeastern Mexico, in State of 

 Vera Cruz (Mirad6r), southward through Central America (Cobfi,n, 

 Guatemala; Matagalpa and San Raf&el del Norte, Nicaragua) and 

 South America to southern Brazil (Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul; Sao 

 Paulo; Urucdm, Mattogrosso) and Argentina (TucumS,n). 



Nlyctalops] stygius Wa.Q'l^s,, Isis, 1832, 1221 (Brazil; coll. Mus. Eichstaett). 



Nyeialops stygius Kobnigswald, Joum. fur Om., 1896, 382 (Sao Paulo, s. Bra- 

 zil). — Dabbbnb, Orn. Argent., 1910, 251 (Tucuman, Argentina). 



\Nyctalops\ stygius Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116. 



Otus stygius Pucheban, Rev. Zool., 1849, 29. — Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 

 113; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 232. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. See. 

 N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). — Schlegbl, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Striges), 

 1863, 6; no. 86 (Revue), 1873, 4.— Oassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 5 

 (Mirador, Vera Cruz). — Pelzeln, Om. Bras., 1868, 10. — Rbogway, in Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 17. 



O^tus"] stygius Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 



[Otus'] stygius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 50, no. 542 (s. Brazil). — Pelzeln, Om. 

 Bras., 1871, 400. 



Asio stygius Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 207. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 ii, 1875, 241 (Brazil; Cuba). — ^Bbrlepsch and Ihering, Zeitschr. Om., 1885, 

 166 (Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul, s. Brazil; crit.). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 466 (Cuba; synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 189; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 10, 100, 128 (Cuba).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1897, 6 (Mexico; San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua,; Colombia; 



■J One specimen, from Isle of Pines. 



6 Two specimens, from Vera Cmz and Nicaragua. 



Locality. 



MALE. 



One adult male from Isle of Pines 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Vera Cruz (Mirador) 



One adult female from Nicaragua (Matagalpa). 



SEX XTNKNOWN 



Two adults from Cuba 



One adult from Guatemala (Coban) 



One adult from Colombia 



One adult from Brazil 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



21.5 



21.5 

 24 



23 

 21 



The series examined is much too small to justify an opinion of whether the species 

 requires subdivision or not. The Cuban examples are very much like continental 

 ones, but the one from the Isle of Pines is somewhat different from those examined 

 from the main island. 



