BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 679 



GYMNASIO NUDIPES NEWTONI (Lawrence). 



KTEWTOirS BABE-LEGOED OWL. 



Similar to G. n. midipes, but color of upper parts lighter and more 

 grayish brown and under parts more sparsely and less heavily 

 streaked and vermiculated. 



Adult.— Length, (skins), 205-209 (207); wing, 145.5-162.5 (157.9); 

 tail, 79.5-88 (83.1); culmen (from cere), 13.5-14.5 (13.8)." 



Island of St. Thomas, St. Johns, and St. Croix,* Greater Antilles. 



Oymnasio nudipes (not Strix nudipes Daudin) Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 



1875, 114, part (St. Johns; St. Croix).— Coet, Auk, iii, 1886, 469, part; Birds 



West Ind., 1889, 192, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds,' 1892, 10, 100, part (St. 



Thomas; St. Johns; St. Croix).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 130 



(St. Thomas). 

 [Cfymnasio] nvdipes Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21, part (St. Johns; St 



Croix). 

 Cfymnoglaux nvdipes (not Strix nudipes Daudin) Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 



64, pi. 1 (St. Croix; habits; crit.), 307 (St. Johns; crit.). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 374 (St. Thomas; crit.).— Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lend., 1868, 328, part (St. Thomas; St. Croix; crit.) 

 Oymnogkmx newtoni Lawebnce, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1860, 259 



(St. Croix, Greater Antilles; based on Ibis, 1859, pi. 1); Ibis, 1878, 115 (St. 



Croix; St. Thomas; descr.). 

 G[ymno(/ZaMs] nctotom Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 1878, 187 diagnosis). 



GYMNASIO LAWRENCn (Sclater and Salvin). 



CUBAN BARE-LEGGED OWL. 



Tarsus entirely naked, except extreme upper anterior portion; 

 back and wing-coverts with conspicuous white spots; under parts 

 without transverse vermiculations. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above olive-brown without bars or vermicu- 

 lations, but with the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts spotted with 

 white, these spots usually large, conspicuous, and approaching a 

 rounded form but sometimes smaller, partially concealed, and of 

 irregular shape; secondaries with more or less distinct Kghter cross- 

 bands, the primaries with large, roundish spots of pale duU buff or 

 dirty white; tail duU brown, usually with indications of several nar- 

 row paler bands, but sometimes entirely uniform on upper surface; 

 "eyebrow" (superciliary region) and lower part of face dull pale 

 brownish buff or dirty white, the orbital and auricular regions darker; 

 under parts usually pale brownish buff or dull white (rarely pure 

 white), each feather with a distinct mesial stripe of brown, these 

 stripes sometimes linear, more often lanceolate, but occasionally 



o Pour specimens from St. Thomas, sex undetermined. 



t> I have seen specimens from St. Thomas only; but judging from the colored plate 

 in The Ibis (1859, pi. 1), the St. Croix birds seem to agree in coloration with those from 

 St. Thomas. 



