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Show 328 ON NEW AMERICAN BIRDS. [May 28, representative. It becomes therefore necessary to bestow a new name upon the latter ; and we have great pleasure in calling it Gymn oglaux lawrencii, after our friend Mr. Lawrence, who has so well pointed out its distinctive characters. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Foot of G. nudipes. Foot of 67. lawrencii. The synonymy of the only two known species of the genus Gymnoglaux will therefore stand as follows :- (1) GYMNOGLAUX NUDIPES. Strix nudipes, Daud. Tr. d'Orn. ii. p. 199; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 269 ; Vieill. Ois. de 1'Am. Sept. i. p. 45, t. 16. Gymnoglaux nudipes, A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 64, t. 1. Syrnium nudipes, Kp. Trans. Z. S. iv. p. 250. Gymnoglaux newtoni, Lawr. Ann. N . Y. Lye. viii. p. 258. Major : supra fusca nigro vermiculata : tarsis partim plumosis, dimidio inferiore nudo. (Cf. fig. 1.) Hab. Porto Rico (Mauge') ; St. Thomas (Riise et Swift); S. Croix (Newton). (2) GYMNOGLAUX LAWRENCII. (Plate XXIX.) Noctua nudipes, Lembeye, Aves de Cuba, p. 23, t. 4. f. 2. Gymnoglaux nudipes, Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 465 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 257; Gundlach, Repert. F. N. i. p. 226. Minor : supra fusca unicolor, maculis albis aspersa : tarsis fere omnino nudis. (Cf. fig. 2.) J Hab. Cuba (Lembeye et Gundlach). Of this latter species we have examined two specimens in a series of American Strigidae, kindly submitted to our inspection bv the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution. One of these was col- |