16 ASIONIDZ. 
A. Digitis supra plumosis aut setosis. 
1. Scops trichopsis. (Tab. LXI1.) 
Scops trichopsis, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 276'; Scl. P. ZS. 1858, p. 357 (?)*3 Salv. Ibis, 1874, 
p- 314°. 
Scops (Megascops) trichopsis, Kaup, Trans. Z. 8. iv. p. 227 ‘5 
Scops maccalli, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 296°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 220°; Duges, La Nat. 1. 
p. 13887. 
Scops asio, var. enano, Lawr. MS., Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. p. 200°; Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., 
& Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, i. p. 48°. 
Scops enano, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 118”. 
Megascops adspersus, Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 87"; 1891, p. 409, t. 3%; Hasbrouck, Auk, 1893, 
p. 264. 
Megascops ridgwayi, Nelson & Palmer, Auk, 1894, p. 89™. 
Supra saturate cinereus, fusco vermiculatus et cervino guttatus, plumis omnibus rhachidibus late nigris 
nigroque transfasciatis: subtus albidus, plumis medialiter nigris et nigro distincte transfasciatis ; scapu- 
laribus extrorsum maculis magnis albis notatis, tectricibus mediis et majoribus eodem modo picturatis, 
remigibus fuscis in pogonio externo albido regulariter notatis. Long. tota circa 8:0, alee 6:1, caudee 3:0, 
tarsi 11. (Descr. femine ex Ajusco, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Forma altera rufescens, nigro undique distincte guttata. 
Hab. Mexico (Dr. Petz 1), El Carmen in Chihuahua (R. Rk. McLeod 14), Guanajuato 
(Dugés*), Sierra Madre de Tepic (W. B. Richardson), Patzcuaro (Nelson 14), Zentla 
(Ferrari-Perez), Ajusco (W. B. Richardson), Chimalpa in the Valley of Mexico 
(Ferrari-Perez), Omilteme in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith), La Parada, Oaxaca 
(Boucard®*); Guaremata (Skinner 6), Villa Maria, Joyabaj (Heyde, in U.S. Nat. 
Mus.), Uspantlan, Quiché (U.S. Nat. Mus.), Duefias, Volcan de Fuego above 
Calderas, San Bernardo in the Motagua Valley, Coban (0. 8S. & F. D, G4, 
Honpuras 2 (G. C. Taylor *). 
The original specimen of this species, described by Wagler?, formed part of the 
collection sent by Dr. Petz to the Wirzburg Museum from Mexico, Glaucidium 
gnoma and Conurus petzi, also described by Wagler, being included in the same 
collection, which was most probably formed on the western slope of the Mexican 
Cordillera, where C. petzi abounds and both the Owls are found. For a good many 
years we have used Wagler’s name as we do now, though we associated with it 
Cassin’s S. maccalli, which we now consider to belong to a distinct bird. Until quite 
recently American naturalists have applied Wagler’s title to the Arizona bird now 
called S. cineraceus, and distinguished the present species as S. enano. 
We are now in accord with Mr. Ridgway in the application of Wagler’s name ; and 
on examining specimens we sent to him for that purpose, he tells us that our S. tri- 
chopsis is the same as S. enano, and, moreover, that Megascops adspersus, Brewster, and 
M. ridgwayit, Nelson and Palmer, also belong to the same species. We were disposed 
