var. _perlata_.[15] Wing, 12.00–13.50; tail, 5.60–6.00; culmen, .85–.95; tarsus, 2.70–2.85; middle toe, 1.45–1.60. Colors as in var. _perlata_, but secondaries and tail nearly white, in abrupt contrast to the adjacent parts; tail usually without bars. _Hab._ West Indies (Cuba and Jamaica, Mus. S. I.) … var. _furcata_.[16] Wing, 11.00; tail, 5.00; culmen, about .85; tarsus, 2.05–2.45; middle toe, 1.30–1.40. Colors of var. _pratincola_, but less of the ochraceous, with a greater prevalence of the gray mottling. Tail with four dark bands _Hab._ Australia … var. _delicatula_.[17] Wing, 11.00–11.70; tail, 5.10–5.40; culmen, .85–.90; tarsus, 2.30–2.45; middle toe, 1.35–1.45. Same colors as var. _delicatula_. Tail with four dark bands (sometimes a trace of a fifth). _Hab._ India and Eastern Africa … var. _javanica_.[18] Strix flammea, var. pratincola, BONAP. AMERICAN BARN OWL. _Strix pratincola_, BONAP. List, 1838, p. 7.—DE KAY, Zoöl. N. Y. II, 1844, 31, pl. xiii. f. 28.—GRAY, Gen. B., fol. sp. 2.—CASSIN, B. Cal. & Tex. 1854, p. 176.—NEWB. P. R. Rep. VI, IV, 1857, 76.—HEERM. do. VII, 1857, 34.—CASS. Birds N. Am. 1858, 47.—COUES, Prod. Orn. Ariz. (P. A. N. S. Philad. 1866), 13.—SCL. P. Z. S. 1859, 390 (Oaxaca).—DRESSER, Ibis, 1865, 330 (Texas).—? BRYANT, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 65 (Bahamas). _Strix perlata_, GRAY, List Birds Brit. Mus. 1848, 109 (not _S. perlata_ of LICHT. !).—IB. Hand List, I, 1869, 52.—KAUP, Monog. Strig. Pr. Zoöl. Soc. Lond. IV, 1859, 247. _Strix americana_, AUD. Synop. 1839, 24.—BREWER, Wilson’s Am. Orn. 1852, 687. _Strix flammea_, MAX. Reise Bras. II, 1820, 265.—WILS. Am. Orn. 1808, pl. l, f. 2.—JAMES, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn. I, 1831, 111.—AUD. B. Am. 1831, pl. clxxi.—IB. Orn. Biog. II, 1831, 403.—SPIX, Av. Bras. I, 21.—VIG. Zoöl. Jour. III, 438.—IB. Zoöl. Beech. Voy. p. 16.—BONAP. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. II, 38.—IB. Isis, 1832, 1140; Consp. Av. p. 55.—GRAY, List Birds Brit. Mus. 1844, 54.—NUTT. Man. 1833, 139. _Ulula flammea_, JARDINE, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn. II, 1832, 264. _Strix flammea_, var. _americana_, COUES, Key, 1872, 201.