BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
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FAM. STRIGIDzF. 
OWLS. 
STRIX FLAMMEA VAR. PRATINCOLA. (. Linn .) Bp. 
Barn Owl. 
Adult Male. — Above, tawny brown, delicately mottled in places 
with black and white ; under parts showing pale tawny, dotted with 
brown ; face, whitish, with an ante-orbital of brown ; under surface 
of wings, white, slightly dotted with brown ; tail, with four black bars 
on the upper surface below, pale. 
Length 15.25, wing 13, tail 5.70, tarsus 2.75. 
The Barn Owl is a resident in the Bahamas, and is claimed to 
be abundant by the inhabitants, who know it by a variety of names, 
among- which are Monkey-faced Owl, Brown Owl, White Owl, and 
a dozen others about as applicable. I was able to procure only 
two specimens during my stay, one of which was kindly presented 
to me by Mr. Epes Sargent, of Nassau. Mr. N. B. Moore found 
a pair of this species breeding in the vicinity of Nassau, N. P. He 
says, “ The nest is in a niche in a perpendicular (vertical) wall of 
rock, thirty feet from the base and fifteen feet below the top, and 
is unapproachable. I killed one of a pair of this species, a female, 
