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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



This form is a somewhat scarce resident. A male was shot 

 Dec. 2, 1SS2, near Puerto Plata, and another at the same place 

 March 1, 1SS3. No others were seen, and nothing was learned 

 regarding the habits. 



Subfamily, SURNIN^. 



Genus: SPEOTYTO. Gloger. 

 SPEOTYTO: GLOGER, HANDB. NATURG., /. 226, 1S42. 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA. {Molina) 



Strix cunicularia. Molina, Stor. Chil., p. 343 (17S2). — Gm„ Syst. 



Nat., I. p. 292 (17SS). 

 Athene cunicularia. Bp., Comp. List Bds. Eur. et N. Am., p. 6. 



— Strickl., Orn. Syn., p. 160 (1S55). 

 Spcotyto cunicularia var. cunicularia. Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. 



Am. Bds., p. go (1874). 

 Spcotyto cunicjtlaria dominicensis. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



VI. p. 154 (1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — General plumage, brown; the head marked 

 with streaks of dull white feathers of the nape showing a subter- 

 minal bar of dull white; back, mottled and barred with dusky 

 white; quills, brown, tipped with dull white and barred with pale 

 brown ; secondaries marked on the outer web ; tail, brown, tipped 

 with buff white, and banded; ear coverts, brown; cheeks, dull 

 white; throat and upper neck, dull white, separated from each 



