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under parts much darker (the wliite sometimes wholly replaced by 

 ochraceous), the Brown vermiculations heavier or denser, the whole 

 chest (sometimes breast also) occasionally brown or tawny-brown 

 with darker vermiculations; legs lieavily mottled with brown. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 372-400 (384); wing, 303-310 

 (307.5); tail, 175-186.5 (179.2); culmen, from cere, 18-20 (18.7).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 365-413 (408); wing, 298-320 

 (306.6); tail, 169.5-182.5 (176.5); culmen, from cere, 18-20 (19).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador), Oaxaca (Villa 

 Alta; Cacoprieto) and Chiapas (San Bartolome) and southward, 

 through Guatemala (Coban; Vera Paz; Escuintla; San Pedro Mar- 

 tir) and Costa Rica (Rio Sicsola, Talamanca; El Hogar; San Carlos; 

 Santa Ana; San Jose; Escazii; Santo Domingo do San Mateo; 

 Lagarto; Pozo Aziil de Pirris ; Volcan de Irazu) to Panama (Boquete, 

 Divala, and Boqueron, Chiriqui; Santa Fe, Bugaba, and Vivala, 

 Veragua; Nata^, Code; Cana, Darien). 



Scops cristata . . . var. Strickland, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1848, 60-7, pi. 10 

 (Coban, Guatemala; crit.). 



Lophostrix stricklandi ScLATERand Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 221 (Vera Paz, Guatemala; 

 coll. H. Strickland).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 158 (Santa Fe, 

 Veragua, Panama); 1870, 216 (Bugaba, Veragua); Ibis, 1874, 99 (Escuintla, 

 Guatemala). — Lat/rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 367 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, 

 Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 22 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 

 45 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 125 (San Jose and Santa Ana, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 

 (San Jose); Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 50 (Lagarto, s. w. Costa Rica). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 14 (Villa Alta and 



Great differences in coloration are seen in the series examined; but without a 

 much larger number of specimens, and especially in the absence of the t\-pe specimen 

 or topotypes, it would be useless to conclude whether these variations represent 

 simply individual or phase differences or are geographical. 



