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lower abdomen and flanks. It is larger than Scops enano [i. e., maccalUl 

 and differs from that bird also in not having a rufous phase; the cross- 

 barring of the under surface in the latter is of the same character in 

 8. enano as in 8. asio : that is to say, the bars are often double, whereas 

 in 8. trichoims they are single and very distinct." 



The specimens in the British Museum, two in number, are both from 

 Western Mexico; and it would seem that the species is mainly confined 

 to the Pacific slope of that country, though ranging sparingly into the 

 Southwestern United States, where, however, true 8. asio is much 



more common. 



7. SCOPS COOPERI. 



Scops coopp.ri, Ridgway, MS. 



Habitat. — Costa Rica. 



gp. cH. — Very similar to the grayish style of 8. brasilianus, but with 

 he toes very distinctly bristled. 



9 ad. (No. 74,207, Santa Ana, Costa Rica, Sept. 4, 1875, Jos6 C. Zele- 

 don) : — Above grayish umber-brown, very finely vermiculated with 

 dusky, the feathers of the pileum and back having mesial, chain-like 

 streaks of blackish ; outer webs of exterior scapulars somewhat varied 

 with white spotting; outer webs of primaries marked with quadrate 

 spots of pale fulvous, bordered with blackish, there being about ten of 

 these spots on the longest quill (the filth); tail crossed with narrow 

 bauds of the same color, likewise bordered with a narrower dusky bar, 

 these light bands about 10-1.'? in number. Face brownish- white, finely 

 but distinctly barred with dusk^ brown ; superciliary region lighter and 

 more coarsely mottled ; face bordered laterally or posteriorly by a distinct 

 narrow band of dusky spots. Lower parts white, densely marked with 

 blackish and umber-brown zigzags, imparting a light brownish apj)ear- 

 ance to the whole surface ; feathers of the tibia? and tarsi light rusty- 

 umber, thickly barred with deeper brown. " Iris lemon-yellow ; cere, 

 bill and feet, yellowish green." Wing, 7.00; tail, 3.75; culmen, .02; 

 tarsus, 1.25 ; middle toe, 1.00. 



9 juv. (No. 74,552, San Jos6, Costa Rica, May 10, 1866 ; Jose C. Zele- 

 don) : — Toes distinctly bristled, excepting on the two or three terminal scu- 

 tellfe. General color above light grayish-brown, relieved by very minute 

 and ratlier indistinct, transverse vermiculations of dusky, and larger, but 

 still inconspicuous, transverse marks of white, these larger and more 

 obvious on the lower webs of the middle wing-coverts. Remiges and 

 rectrices pale grayish-brown, minutely vermiculated with dusky, and 

 distinctly banded with pale reddish-fulvous (color of sulphate of man- 

 ganese). Lower parts dirty- whitish, crossed everyicliere with transverse 

 vermiculations, or ragged, narrow lines of dusky, stiongly suffused with 

 brownish across the jugulum, where the vermiculations are minute and 

 confused ; flanks and crissum with the bars broad and distinct, the inter- 

 spaces nearly pure white, and wider than the mottled-brownish bars. 

 Bill pale horn-color, yellowish at the end; "iris yellow"; claws very 



