Mr. G. N. Lawrence on the Genus Gymnoglaux. 185 
newtoniy and which has been considered of late to be G. nu- 
dipeSj Daud.^ I find them strikingly unlike, differing in ap¬ 
pearance even more than the latter does from the Cuban 
species. Consequently the name G. newtoni must be restored 
for the bird from St. Croix and St. Thomas. 
There being, in my opinion, three well-marked species of 
the genus Gymnoglaux, and having specimens of each, I think 
it may be of interest to have their characteristics defined. 
4-1. Gymnoglaux nudipes (Baud.), Tr. d^Orn. ii. p. 199. 
Gymnoglaux krugii, Gundl. Jour. f. Orn. 1874, p. 315. 
Male. Upper plumage clear dark rufous, with a few small 
obscure pale markings on the upper part of the back; the 
scapulars are crossed with whitish bars, which are tinged 
with rufous and edged with black j front of a lighter rufous, 
crossed with waving lines of brown; lores and superciliaries 
of a pale rufous white; ruff dark brown at the bases of the 
feathers, their ends white; middle tail-feathers and outer 
webs of the others rufous brown, mottled with nearly obso¬ 
lete darker markings; the outer webs of the outer feathers 
have a few irregular bars of pale rufous, the inner webs are 
dark brown; middle and larger wing-coverts blackish brown, 
ending with rufous, and having subterminal white spots on 
their outer webs; the quills on their outer webs are dull 
rufous brown, indented with white spots, the inner webs are 
dark hair-brown ; the under plumage is whitish, closely 
marked on each feather with shaft-stripes of dark brown, and 
crossed on both webs with narrow waving lines of paler rufous 
brown ,• thighs and feathers of the tarsi for half their length 
light rufous, distinctly barred with blackish brown; bill 
whitish horn-colour; feet pale brownish yellow. 
Hab. Porto Rico. 
2. Gymnoglaux newtoni, Lawr. Ann. N.Y.Lyc.viii.p.258. 
Gymnoglaux nudipes, A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 64, 
pi. i.; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 328. 
Malel The plumage above (of my specimen from St. 
Thomas) is of a dull rufous, with narrow, irregular, rather 
indistinct markings of brown,* and broader ones of pale rufous, 
