820 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Slpeotyto] cunimlaria hypogsea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 516.— 



EiDGWAT, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 265. 

 Speotytohypogssa'S-ETfiSBA.w, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1874, 9 (Utah). 

 [Speotyto] hypogsea Sharpb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 297. 

 Spheotyto hypogsea Bebwee, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 444 (Newbury- 



port, Massachusetts, accidental). 

 Stnx californica Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iv, 1838, pi. 432, fig. 2 (name on 



plate). 

 Athene sodalis Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, April, 1846, 47 (Mexico; 



New Mexico; Rocky Mts.; California); Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 



30 (California). 

 Speotyto cunimlaria obsmra Stephens, Auk, xii, Oct., 1895, 372 (Upper Lake, 



Lake Co., California; coll. F. Stephens).— McGebgoe, Auk, xv, 1898, 187 



(crit.). 

 Speotyto cunicularia hechi Rothschild and Haetbet, Novit. Zool., ix, July 25, 



1902, 405 (Guadalupe Island, Lower California; coll. Tring Mus.). 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA ROSTRATA (Townsend). 

 CLARION ISLAND BTJIIIIOWING OWL. 



Similar to S. c. Jiypogsea but with much larger bill and feet and 

 decidedly shorter wing and tail; color of upper parts averaging 

 darker, the under parts usually more decidedly buffy. 



Adult Tmle.— Length (skins), 215-235 (221); wing, 160-169 (165); 

 tail, 72-79.5 (76.3) ; cuhnen, from cere, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 45.5-49 

 (47.1); middle toe, 20-22.5 (21.4).» 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 195-202 (198.5); wiag, 164-164.5 

 (164.2); tan, 70-70.5 (70.2); culmen, from base, 15.5-16.5 (16); tar- 

 sus, 44.5-46 (45.2); middle toe, 20.5-21 (20.7).* 



Clarion Island, EeviUagigedo group, western Mexico. 



Sp6oJj/Jo TOSiraSo TowNSBND (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, Sept. 9, 1890, 133 



(Clarion Island, Eevillagigedo group, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — 



Anthony, Auk, xv, 1898, 318 (Clarion I.). 

 [Speotyto'] rostrata Shaepb, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 297. 

 Speotyto cunicularia rostrata Rothschild and Haetebt, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 



87, 105 (Clarion I.). 

 S[peotyto] c[unicularia] rostrata Rothschild and Haeteet, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 



405, in text. 

 Pholeoptynx rostrata Gueney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 41. 



SPEOTYTO FLORID ANA FLORID ANA (Ridgway). 



FLORIDA BURKOWING OWL. 



Above darker and much less biiffy brown than in any of the forms 

 of S. cunicularia, with the spotting duU white instead of more or less 

 buffy; ground color of under parts much less buffy (duU white, buffy 

 only on thighs and imder wing-coverts) ; under wing-coverts spotted 

 with brown, at least toward edge of wing; tarsus less extensively 

 feathered, the feathering shorter; wing and tail averaging much 

 shorter than in S. cunicularia hypogsea and bill larger. 



o Ten specimens. * Two specimens. 



