BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 675 



cinnamon (sometimes slightly intermixed with whitish), the feathers 

 usually with black mesial streaks, often with a few small dusky bars 

 also; chin plain cinnamon buff or cinnamon; rest of imder parts 

 light to pale ochraceous-tawny or clay color, irregularly vermiculated 

 or freckled with darker and vnth. distinct mesial streaks of dark brown 

 or brownish black, the flanks, etc., with ground color paler, sometimes 

 suffused with dull buffy whitish; legs cinnamon-buff , usually immacu- 

 late but sometimes sparsely flecked with brown; under tail-coverts 

 paler cinnamon-buff, nearly if not quite immaculate; under wing- 

 coverts cionamon-buff, sometimes with a few dusky streaks near 

 edge of wing; under primary-coverts uniform dark grayish broAvn 

 with basal haK (approximately) abruptly pale buff or buffy white; 

 under surface of remiges pale buff banded on outer primaries and dis- 

 talhalt ormoreof other remiges with mottled dusky; bill dull yellowish 

 becoming more horn colored laterally and basally (pale bluish gray 

 in life) "; iris brown; naked toes duU brownish in dried skins (dull 

 lead color in life) ". 



YouTig. — Remiges and rectrices as in adults; back Kght grayish 

 brown or buffy grayish brown, more or less distinctly barred with 

 dusky; rest of plumage, including wing-coverts, dull buff or Hght 

 duU cinnamon-buff, sparsely and, for the most part indistinctly, 

 barred with brown, the imder tail-coverts, anal region, and legs 

 (usually, at least) immaculate. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 270-348 (314); wing,"^ 197-228.5 

 (213.4); tail, 96-129 (121.2); cuhnen (from cere), 19-22 (20.2).* 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 310-337 (319); wing, 214.5-229. 

 (222); tail, 115-131 (123.6); culmen (from cere), 20-21.5 (20.6)."^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (St. George; Spanishtown; 

 St. Andrews; Priestmans River; mountains above Bath; St. An- 

 drews). 



Ephialtes grammicus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 19 (Tait-Shafton, Jamaica); 



Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 4. 

 Pseudoscops grammicus Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769; Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 113; 



Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 231. — Sclatbb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1861, 80.— Albbbcht, Joum. fiir Om., 1862, 204.— Coey, Auk, iii, 1886, 465 



(synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 188; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 



130.— Scott, Auk, viii, 1892, 127 (habits). 

 [Pseudoscops] grammicus Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116. — 



Coey, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21. 

 P[seiuioscops] grammicus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 110. 

 [Scops] grammicus Bonapaetb, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 46. 

 Scops grammicus Steickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 205. — Sclatee, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1858, 183. 

 [Otus] grammicus Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 51, no. 547. 

 Asio grammicus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 242. — Coey, Cat. West 



Ind. Birds, 1892, 10, 100.— Sclatee, Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 12. 

 [Asio] grammicus Sharpb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 281. 



" According to Gosse. 6 Nine specimens. " Five specimens. 



