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Show 192 Collector's notes. Bare, and apparently only found in the pine- woo. ls of the north end of the island. FAM. STRIGID^. Two kinds of owls were seen on the island, but as no specimens of either were obtained it is quite impossible to indicate the species. FAM. FALCONID^. 8. POLYBORUS LUTOSUS ( Ridgtc.) Folyborus lutosus RIDGWAY, Ball. U. S. Geol. & Oeog. Survey of the Territories ( F. V. Hay den). No. 6, second series, p. 459. SP. CH.- Wing, 15.00- 1G. 40; tail, 10.50- 11.65; culmen, 1.23- 1.35; tarsus, 3.50- 3.75; middle toe, 1.80- 2.10. Adult;- Pileum, lesser wing-coverts, secondaries, primary- coverts, alula, termiual portion of primaries, entire lining of the wiug ( including axillars), and termiual band ' on the tail ( 1.00- 1.60 wide) blackish- brown, sometimes almost black; auricnlars, cheeks, and throat dirty whitish, or light isabella- color. Best of the plumage marked with transverse bars of brownish- black, or dark brown, and brownish white, or light isabella- color, the bars most regular on the lower surface ( and often the upper tail- coverts), where they extend uninterruptedly from the foreneck to the crjssum, the bars of the two colors being about equal in width, the dark ones fainter on the crissum, narrower and more distant on the foreneck; on the middle and greater wing coverts they are similar to those on the abdomen; on the interscapulars the dark ones are much wider than the light ones, and nearly black; on the scapulars dark brown prevails, the lighter bars being almost obliterated. The basal half or nioru of the outer five or six primaries are isabella- white, trausversely mottled, or raggedly barred, with grayish and dusky, the shafts clear yellowish- white. Tail, except dusky terminal band, marked with ragged transverse bars of brownish- gray and isabella- white. of equal widths, the bars of the two colors separated by a narrower zigzag bar of dusky. Immature.- Ee-miges and rectrices the same as in the adult, but thq terminal band of the tail narrower and less sharply defined; pileum and lesser wing- coverts dark brown, the feathers with lighter brown edges ( these sometimes worn oft); back and scapulars dull grayish brown, the latter plain, the former usually slightly variegated with lighter borders and tips to the feathers. Lower parts light grayish- brown, with lougitudiual dashes of dirty whitish ; upper tail- coverts dull grayish brown, tipped with dirty whitish, and sometimes barred with the same, the feathers with darker shaft- streaks;, lower tail- coverts very indistinctly marked in much the same manner. Auriculars, cheeks, and throat plain dirty white, as in the adult. Pullus.- General color light isabella- color, or brownish- white, with an umber- brown patch over the scapula, connected with one over the radius aud ulna; pileum uniform umber-brown. Remarks.- In the adult plumage, all the contour- feathers have distinctly black shafts, especially on the lower surface and upper tail-coverts j on the tibia* and anal- region, the dark bars are smaller and more faint than elsewhere, and incline to a sagittate form; the feathers of the lining of the wing are sometimes narrowly tipped with light isabella- color, or tawny- brown, and the transverse bars are faintest aud |