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85673. Adult (sex not indicated). "La Paz, L. Cal.," error; Ridgway 

 {loc. cit., footnote) suggests Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico, as 

 probably the true provenience. Winter 1879 (not 1877). Received 

 from Edward W. Nelson, who purchased it in San Francisco "from a 

 collector who had recently returned from Lower California." 

 [Scops brasilianus] e. cassini Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1: 90 {nomen nudum) , 102, September 12, 1878. 

 =Otus guatemalae cassini (Ridgway). See Moore and Peters, Auk 



56:51, 1939. 

 27115. Adult (sex not indicated). Hacienda "Mirador," State of Vera- 

 cruz, Mexico. 1861 or 1862. Collected by Carlos Sartorius. Original 

 number 53. 

 33556. Adult female. Hacienda "Mirador," State of Veracruz, Mexico. 

 November 1863. Collected by Carlos Sartorius. Original number 149. 

 No. 33556 has had the facial feathers slightly scorched, with the result 

 that the bristly tips have been to a great extent destroyed. 

 Megascops pinosus Nelson and T. S. Palmer 

 Auk 11 (1):39, January 1894. 

 =Otus guatemalae cassini (Ridgway) . See remarks below. 

 131517. Immature male. In the pines at the northeastern base of the Cofre 

 de Perote (at elev. over 8,000 feet), near Las Vigas, State of Veracruz, 

 Mexico. June 9, 1893. Collected by Edward W. Nelson. Original 

 number 1235. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 The writer is hesitant to set forth an opinion on this critical form, but 

 would suggest that if less stress had been placed on the fact that this juvenile 

 has the toes bristled, the putative race or species pinosus would have been 

 synonymized long since with Otus guatemalae cassini (Ridgway). 



Moore and Peters (Auk 56:46, 1939) claim that the type has "all the 

 earmarks of a trichopsis, including small feet, bristled toes, typical juvenile 

 indications of the white spots of collar on hind neck, the inner web of the 

 outermost primary v/ithout any whitish spots and the bristly tips to the 

 feathers of the face greatly developed." The small feet are to be expected in 

 a juvenile male; the bristled toes may be usual in the young of cassini or 

 may represent individual variation; the collar appearing on the hind neck is 

 quite like that of the types of cassini; the outermost primary is still so 

 largely ensheathed as to make it unprofitable to discuss the potential charac- 

 ters of the base of its inner web ; the bristly tips to the feathers of the face 

 are developed precisely as in cassini. When we add to all this the fact that 

 the type of pinosus has the upper parts of exactly the same dark brown as 

 the types of cassini, the type locality of which is in Veracruz, it is difficult 

 to believe that pinosus is anything but the young of cassini. 

 Megascops marmoratus Nelson 

 Auk 14 ( 1 ) : 49, January 1897. 

 =Otus guatemalae guatemalae (Bowdler Sharpe) . See Moore and Peters, 

 Auk 56:50, 1939. 



