1873.] 105 [Ridgway. 



stripes, posteriorly ; anteriorly, it is much broken up by numerous 

 irregular, but somewhat roundish, indistinct spots of white. Legs 

 strongly clouded (especially on outer side) with brown ; lower tail- 

 coverts, each with a narrow medial stripe of brown. 



Wing formula, 4 = 5, 3-6-2, 7; 1st shortest. Wing, 4.00; tail, 

 3.00 ; culmen, .50; tarsus, .70; middle toe, .70. 



Adult female (48835, Santiago, August, 1864. Nat. Mus. Chile) 

 very similar to the male. Anterior portions above, more reddish ; 

 tail with ten wider bars, of deeper rufous, (the rufous bars about 

 half as wide as the brown). Wing, 4.50 ; tail, 3.25. Wing formula, 

 4 — 5, 3-6, 2 ; 1st shortest. 



Specimens examined. Nat. Mus., 3 ; Boston Soc, 4 ; Philad. 

 Acad., 4; Mus. Cambridge, 1. Total, 12. 



9. Glaueidium siju. 



Noctua siju D'Orb., R. Sagra, Cuba, Aves, tab. 3, 1839. 



Athene siju Gray, Gen. B. p. 35, No. 25, 1840. 



Nyctale siju Bonap., Consp. Av., p. 54, No. 25, 1850. 



Glaueidium siju Caban., Journ. fur. Orn. 465, No. 20, 1855; Ueb. 



Berl. Mus. 1869, 207. 

 Strix havanensis Licht. in Mus. Berl. 

 Glaueidium havanense Kaup, Monog. Strig., p. 204, sp. 5. 

 Bab. Cuba (only?). 



Description. 



Adult male (39113, Remedios, Cuba, Feb. 8, 1865; N. H. Bishop). 



Upper surface umber; nape crossed by a broad collar of plain 

 fine light rufous; an oblong isolated black space on each side of the 

 neck, anterior to the rufous. Head above, and nape, with numerous 

 diamond-shaped specks of white; scapulars and wings with trans- 

 verse spots, or bars, of white; secondaries crossed with four bands of 

 pure white, formed of indentations along the margin ; primaries with 

 a few spots of pure white, these most conspicuous near the sinuation. 

 Tail brown (lighter than the primaries), crossed by about six very 

 narrow, but perfectly continuous, bars of white — the last terminal. 

 Beneath, pure white ; gular collar reddish brown; sides of the breast,, 

 sides and flanks, with numerous, detached, rather transverse spots of 

 deep brown,, with a rufous cast. Rest of lower parts, immaculate 

 pure white. Wing formula, 4 = 5, 3-6, 2, 7; 1st shortest. Wing, • 

 3.50; tail, 2.30; culmen, .41 ; tarsus, .62; middle toe, .65. Length 



