TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 145 



155676. Adult female. Catemaco, State of Veracruz, Mexico. May 4, 

 1894. Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 2002. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 

 Megascops vermiculatus Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 267, August 1, 1887. 

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



Auk 56:53, 1939. 

 55978. Adult (sex not indicated). Costa Rica. Entered into the 

 museum register on June 15, 1869. Collected by Jose Castulo Zeledon. 

 Received from Albert G. Lawrence. 

 Otus vermiculatus helleri L. Kelso 



Biol. Leaflet 12: [1], November 23, 1940. 

 =Otus guatemalae helleri L. Kelso, fide Deignan (MS.) . 

 273069. Adult female. Rio Comberciato, in the vicinity of its confluence 

 with the Rio Urubamba (elev. 4,000 feet), Department of Cuzco, Peru. 

 September 13, 1915. Collected by Edmund Heller. Original number 

 501. Yale-National Geographic Peruvian Expedition (1914r-1915). 

 Scops cooperi Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1: 116, October 9, 1878. 

 =Otus cooperi (Ridgway). See Moore and Peters, Auk 56:48, 1939. 

 74207. Adult female. Santa Ana de Escazu, Province of San Jose, Costa 

 Rica. September 4, 1875. Collected by Jose Castulo Zeledon. 

 Original number 738. 

 74552 (=43054 reentered). Immature female- San Jose, Province of 

 San Jose, Costa Rica. May 10, 1866. Collected by Jose Castulo 

 Zeledon. Original number 240. 

 Although several Costa Rican villages are named Santa Ana, that the 

 provenience of No. 74207 is the one near San Jose, as suggested by Carriker 

 (Ann. Carnegie Mus. 6: 353, 1910), is indicated by the fact that Ridgway's 

 original MS. name for this form was "sancti-josephi" 

 Otus choliba alticola L. Kelso 



BioL Leaflet 8: [1], July 24, 1937. 

 80067 (=66645 reentered). Adult (sex not indicated). "Bogota," 

 Colombia. Acquired as part of a collection entered into the museum 

 register on August 18, 1873, although this specimen was set aside as 

 unidentifiable and not entered (simply as "Otus'') until May 13, 1874. 

 Received from Stephen A. Hurlbut and George H. Hurlbut. 

 For an unknown length of time between 1874 and June 23, 1880 (when 

 it was reentered into the register as No. 80067), the bird was in the private 

 collection of Robert Ridgway, where it was No. 2270; during this period the 

 museum label was removed and Ridgway's own attached, with the data 

 incorrectly copied — the locality given as "Guatamala" and the collector as 

 "Van Patten"! 



