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feet yellowish, claws horn-colour. Total length 10 inches, wing G-8, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus l-o5,bare part of latter 0-85. [Miis. Salvin and Godiuan.) 



" Obs. My description is taken from a specimen obtained at Calobre, in 

 Veragua, by Arce, and kindly lent to me by Mr. Salvin. He has at the 

 same time lent me another specimen, obtained by the same collector in 

 Costa Kica. This latter bird differs in several points from the one 

 described, having more of the general aspect of Scops pennatus of the 

 Himalayas ; it is clear sandy in colour, the black forming regular bars 

 across the plumage, the subterminal one very broad, and giving the 

 appearance of large black spots to the upper surface ; feathers of the 

 crown centred with black, the sandy-colored interspaces forming very 

 distinct spots, the ear-tufts being still lighter, and barred across with 

 whitish ; the white spots on the scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer webs 

 of primaries very distinct, as are also the white bars on the lower sur- 

 face, many of them being apparent also on the chest-feathers ; the quills 

 barred with ashy brown on their inner webs, inclining to sandy buff" on 

 the secondaries. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 6-8, tail 4, tarsus 1-45, 

 bare part of the latter 0-65." 



The only specimens of this species which I have seen are several 

 borrowed from Mr. Salvin, and returned to him without descriptions 

 having been taken from them. I therefore quote Mr. Sharpe's account 

 of the species [1. c). 



B. — Toes only, or with, at most, the extreme lower portion of the tarsus, 

 completely 7iaJced. 



2. SCOPS BRASILIANUS. 



a. hrasilianus. 



Strix hrasUiana, Gmel., S. N. I, i, 1788, 289 (ex Briss., 1, 499). 



Strix choUha, Vieill., Nouv. Diet, xiv, 1817, 39 (ex Azaraj Apunt. 11,218). 



Strix decussata, Light., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 59. 



Strix crucigera, Spix, Av. Bras. 1, 1825, 22, pi. 9. 



Strix undulata, Spix, t. c. pi. 10. 



f Scops lopltotes, Less., Traitd, 1, 1831, 107. 



Ejglualiles argentina, Light., Nomencl. 1854,7. 



/?. atricaptllus. 

 Strix atricapilla, "Natt.", Temm., PI. Col. II, 1838, pi. 145. 

 Ephialites watsoni, Cassin, Pr. Phila. Acad. IV, 1849, 123. 



y. U8tU8. 



Sco2)s U8ta, SCL., P. Z. S. March 9, 1858, 132. 



6. guatemalcB, 



Scojis hrasilianus, subsp. (3. Scops guatcmalw, Sharpe, Cat. Striges Brit. Mus. 1875, 112, 

 pi. ix. 



£. casaini. 

 Scops hrasilianus, e. cassini, Ridgw., MS. 



The above synonymy will serve to show what names I would bring 

 together under the specific head of Scops hrasilianus (Gmel.) on account 



