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According to Sumichrast it is found in the Alpine region of the State of Vera Cruz !°, 
and we also know of its occurrence in the Valley of Mexico, where White obtained a 
specimen 7, and where Don Fernando Ferrari-Perez also met with it, both at Chimalpa 
and San Antonio Coapa, villages in the Valley of Mexico, and in the pine-region of the 
Mexican plateau. S. #lammeola also occurs in Guatemala, though very sparingly, as 
we obtained only two specimens during our stay in that country—one near Duetas, and 
one from near the village of Paramos on the hills above Duefias, at an altitude of over 
6000 feet above sea-level. Both these specimens were brought us by Indian hunters. 
‘Beyond the northern limits of Mexico this Owl ranges through Arizona and 
Colorado to Northern California, and Bendire gives an account of its range and habits 
so far as known’, Mr. W. G. Smith, of Loveland, Colorado, found three nests in 1890 
in Colorado, all of them in old Woodpeckers’ holes in aspen or pine trees, at elevations 
ranging from 10,000 to 8000 feet. The usual number of eggs is four, their colour 
white with a faint creamy tint, oval in shape, and slightly glossy. 
The food of S. flammeola consists of small mammals, coleoptera, and other insects, 
and sometimes a scorpion. 
The iris of this species, according to Sumichrast, is golden-yellow and the cere 
olive-yellow. 
b. Tarsis fere omnino nudis. 
11. Scops nudipes. 
Bubo nudipes, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 53, t. 22°. 
Scops nudipes, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 57°; Ex. Orn. p. 102 °, Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 216°; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 121°; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 89°. 
Megascops nudipes, Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125%; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 
p. 827°; Hasbrouck, Auk, 1893, p. 262". _ ci’? tr a hen, 
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Strix psilopoda, Vieill. N. Dict. d’ Hist. N. vii. p. 46°. 
Supra rufescens, nigro vermiculatus et variegatus ; dorsi et pilei plumis rufescente guttatis, scapularium pogoniis 
externis albo notatis, primariis fusco-nigricantibus pallide rufo guttatis; cauda nigricante, rufo variegata 
vix transfasciata: subtus rufus, plumis omnibus stria rhachidali nigra et nigro transversim variegatis, 
hypochondriis imis quoque albo bifasciatis ; facie rufa, nigro vix variegata; tarsis nudis, plus quam dimidio 
distali et digitis nudis. Long. tota circa 10:5, ale 7-0, caude 3°85, tarsi 1-45. (Deser, exempl. ex 
Calobre, Panama. Mus, nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (Arcé? 4), La Carpintera, Cervantes (U.S. Nat. Mus.°), El Zarcero 
de Alajuela (Zeledon"), Irazu (H. Rogers; C. F. Underwood, in mus. Rothschild), 
Santa Ana (C. F. Underwood), San José (Cherrie’); Panama, Calobre (Arcé *).— 
Cotomsia (fide Cassin 1°). 
Scops nudipes seems to be a species perfectly distinct from all other members of the 
genus, for not only is the coloration peculiar, but the greater part of the tarsi being 
naked, as well as the toes, renders it easily recognized. 
Vieillot’s figure of his Bubo nudipes is a very poor one, and was taken from a bird 
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