Moore.} 244 [May IS, 



(there designated by the same vulgar name as here) for C. popetue. 

 Dr. Sclater decides [Proc. of Zoological Society of London, 1861, p. 

 77] that the Jamaican bird of Gosse is C. minor, and I presume the 

 one found here by Dr. Bryant is the same. 



I here present the dimensions of one killed July 26. Adult, 

 female: — 21-|, 81, wing 7-J, tail 3|, cul. -£%, width of mouth, f: 

 weight of this one 2 oz.; of a young one 1 oz. 7 dr. 



The white patch on the wing is confined to first quills, and does 

 not reach the shaft on outer quill of the adult; it is nearer the tip of 

 the wing than the carpus by nearly the breadth of the patch. There is 

 no sign of a rudimentary white spot on the fifth quill of this one, but 

 on the other, young, the fifth quill is touched on both sides of the 

 shaft with grayish and light ash mottling ; not moulting. Color 

 below, especially on abdomen and crissum, with strong wash of rufus, 

 stomach and throat crammed with a pellet of red winged ants ; left 

 Nassau Oct. 25 to 28. 



Athene (Spheotyto) cunicularia. Soon after my arrival here, 

 on Oct. 12, 1 saw on two occasions, in the dusk of evening, small owls, 

 which took to be Scops asio. One having been brought me by Mr. 

 Brace, I was not a little surprised to see the same species found in 

 Florida and California. 



Its habits here seem quite unlike those noticable in those places. 

 I have but once seen it in daylight; this was a few days ago. I sup- 

 posed I flushed it in a thicket where the trees, being sometimes clus- 

 tered, with numerous bare spaces of rock and earth among them, are 

 generally about fifteen feet in height. I saw it perch on the top of 

 one — the very apex — as I had seen them, at night, on two previous- 

 occasions, and as I have once or twice seen the Florida birds on 

 low bushes in the prairie, in midday, near their burrows. 



The young person who killed one says he has seen them in bright 

 daylight. The stomach of one contained a tree (?) frog, and a small 

 crustacean. Their littoral habits on this island, and their residence 

 on the very low region of Florida, together with their western plains 

 habitat, would seem to endow the species with cosmopolitan qualities. 



Stryx furcata (?) Dimensions, adult, ?, 48, 16|, wing 14, tail 

 6, tarsus 311, culmen (a long curve) 2, tip of bill to anterior part of 

 nares If, gape l\\ r depth of bill on middle of nares \\. Moulting — 

 lateral rectrices one-half longer than central ones ; the pair next to 

 laterals are three-sixths shorter than third, fourth, or fifth pair, the • 

 last three being equal in length. 





