24 ASIONID. 
ufescente quinquies transfasciata : subtus nigricans, preecipue 
in ventre ocellis albidis frequenter aspersus ; subcaudalibus albidis, fusco punctatis ; tarsis vestitis, parte 
distali et digitis omnibus omnino nudis. Long. tota circa 7°0, ale 54, caudee 2°5, tarsi 1°0. (Deser. 
exempl. typ. ex Vera Paz, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) ee eee 
Forma hepatica. Rufescens, supra nigro striata, subtus albido ocellata, plumis stria rhachidali nigra. (Descr. 
exempl. typ. ex Santa Barbara, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Guaremata, Santa Barbara in Vera Paz (BR. Owen 1), Vera Paz (0. 8. & I. D. G.; 
H. Hague, in U.S. Nat. Mus.°). 
Of this Scops but little is known. The original specimen was obtained near Santa 
Barbara, a hamlet in the hills above San Gerénimo in Guatemala. Subsequently 
another was secured somewhere in Vera Paz, and yet a third in the same country by 
Mr. Hague, who sent it to the Smithsonian Institution. 
Scops barbarus belongs to the naked-toed section of the genus. In size it is 
comparable with 8. flammeola, but may readily be distinguished by the white marks 
on the scapulars and by the distal portion of the tarsi being naked like the toes. The 
two species are really very distinct, and in fact S. dardbarus is one of the most isolated 
albo septies transfasciatis ; cauda nigricante, r 
forms of the genus. 
10. Scops flammeola. 
Strix flammeola, Licht. in Mus. Berol.’. 
Scops (Megascops) flammeola, Kaup, Trans. Z. 8. iv. p. 226°. 
Megascops flammeola, Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, i. p. 374, t. 12. f£. 15°; Hasbronck, Auk, 
1893, p. 260°; Fisher, Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. no. 9, p. 173°. 
Scops flammeola, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 96°; 1864, p. 178"; Schl. Mus. P.-B., Oti, p. 27°; Sel. & 
Salv. P.Z.S. 1868, p. 57°; Ex. Orn. p. 99, t. 50°°; Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. 
N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 58”; Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 1047*; Henshaw, Orn. Wheeler’s 
Exp. 1874, p. 406°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 105 *; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. 
p. 237”. 
Supra grisescenti-fuscus, nigro striatus et vermiculatus, scapularium marginibus et capitis plumis partim rufo 
variegatis ; remigum primariorum pogoniis externis maculis quadratis albis ornatis: subtus grisescenti- 
albus, plumis omnibus striga rhachidali et fasciis numerosis transversis nigris instructis; gula et pectore 
rufescente partim tinctis; tarsis omnino plumosis albis, nigro variegatis: rostro pallide corneo, apice 
albicante; pedibus flavidis. Long. tota circa 7:0, ale 5°5, caudee 2:6, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. exempl. ex 
Duefias, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nortn America, N. California 11, Nevada !1, Colorado 11, Arizona !3.—Merxtco 1, 
Valley of Mexico (White "), Chimalpa, San Antonio Coapa (Ferrari-Perez), Alpine 
region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast 1°), Jalapa (Sallé*); Guaremana, Duefias, Cerro 
de Paramos (0. 8S. & F. D. G. 1°). 
| This little Owl, nearly the smallest of the American species of Scops, was described 
by Kaup? from a specimen in the Berlin Museum, probably sent there by Deppe from 
Mexico about the year 1829, and where it received the name of Strix Jiammeola from 
Lichtenstein !. 
