CHECK LIST OF NOET1I AMERICAN BIRDS. 81 



465. Scops asio (L.) Bp. B 49. c sis. B 402. 



Screech Owl; Mottled Owl; Red Owl. 



466. Scops asio kennicotti (Elliot) Coues. B . c 3i8a. R 402rf. 



Kennicott's Screech Owl. 



467. Scops asio maxwellae Ridg. B . c . R 402c. 



Rocky Mountain Screech Owl. 



468. Scops asio maccalli (Cass.) Coues. B 50. c 3is&. R 4026. 



McCalPs Screech Owl. 



469. Scops asio fioridanus Ridg. B . c 3i8c. R 402a. 



Florida Screech Owl. 



470. Scops trichopsis Wagl. B . c . R 403. (?) 



Mexican Screech Owl. 



471. Scops flammeolus (Licht.) Scl. B . c 319. R 404. 



Flammulated Screech Owl. 



472. Asio wilsonianus (Less.) Coues. B 51. c 320. R 395 



Long-eared Owl. 



will: B. r. snbarcticus, after Hoy, and B. v. saturates, Ridg., from the North-west coast, 

 the latter being var. pacijicus of Hist. N. A. B., iii, p. 65. 



465. Scops as'-I-o. Lat. scopes or scops, Gr. <rit<a\]/, a kind of owl. Here we have a name for 

 owl which regards the bird in an entirely different sense from that implied in any of the 

 onomatopoeic names. The etymology is disputed. Some say from ovccSirTeo, I mock, 

 scoff, deride, which would make scops the same as O-KWTTTTJS, a mocker, mimic ; the actions 

 of an owl seeming to travesty the beholder. Others have it from a-Koireu, I look out, 

 survey, contemplate, the root of this being seen in scope, telescope, &c. ; or from crKeirrofjLai, 

 I examine, scrutinize, am sceptical about any thing ; the reference being to the great 

 staring eyes of the bird, or its air of contemplation. Lat. asio, a horned owl ; occurring 

 in Pliny ; apparently a word of Hebrew extraction, the significance of which is unknown 

 to us. 



466. S. a. kgn-ni-cot'-tl. To Robert Kennicott, of Illinois, an ardent and able naturalist, who 



sadly lost his life on the Yukon River, in Alaska, where the variety was procured. 



467. S. a. max'-wel-lae. To Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, of Boulder, Colorado, the discoverer. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List ; since described. See Field and Forest, June, 

 1877, pp. 210, 213. 



468. S. a. mac-cal'-H. To Colonel G. A. McCall, U. S. A., of Philadelphia, who studied 



ornithology in Texas. 



The S. a. enano, recently attributed to Texas by Coues and Sennett, has been identi- 

 fied with this by Ridgway. 



469. S. a. flo-ri-da'-nus. To Florida. 



470. S. trich-op'-sis. Gr. fy/f, genitive rpixos, hair, and nf>, aspect, countenance ; i. q., hairy- 



faced, bristly about the bill ? or general plumage of that character ? 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. If not the species itself, then its identifica- 

 tion with any United States specimens, would appear to be dubious. The name is 

 inserted upon Mr. Ridgway's autlmrit}'. 



471. S. flam-me'-6-lus. Lat. flammeoliis, diminutive of flammeus-: see Ahico, No. 461. 



472. As'-i-6 wil-son-i-a'-nus. For asio, see Scops, No. 465. Latinized Wilsonian; to Alexander 



Wilson, "father of American ornithology." 



This stands as Otus vulc/aris var. wilsonianus in the orig. ed., but is now regarded as 



