704 BaLLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Southern Lower California (Santa Anita ; Miraflores ; Agua Caliente ; 

 Cape San Lucas; Cardon Grande; El Rancho Viejo). 



Scops asio, var. inaccalli (not Scops mccallii Cassin) Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 52, part (Cape San Lucas, Lower 

 California). 



S[cops] trichopsis Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vi, 1883, 349, in text (Agua 

 Caliente and Miraflores, s. Lower California). 



Scops trichopsis? (not of Wagler) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 114, 

 part (Cape San Lucas); v, 1883, 533, footnote (Cape San Lucas). 



M[egascops] asio trichopsis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 261, part (Cape 

 San Lucas). 



Megascops asio trichopsis Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 

 284 (Cape San Lucas, Cardon Grande, and El Ranclio Viejo, Lower California). 



ife^ascops a;an<Msi Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo\., xli, no. 1, Sept., 1902, 93 

 (Santa Anita, s. Lower California; coll. W. Brewster). ^ — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx, 1893, 341. 



Otus xantusi American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, July, 

 1908, 372; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 174. 



OTUS TRICHOPSIS (Wagler). 



SPOTTED SCREECH OWL. 



Somewhat like O. asio mccallii and 0. a. cineraceus but smaller, espe- 

 cially the feet; coloration much darker, with coarser mottling on upper 

 parts; lower hindneck crossed by a collar of white spots; dark spaces 

 on outer webs of primaries not barred or mottled with black ; throat 

 strongly cinnamomeous ; under parts with black streaks much broader 

 and transverse pencilings heavier and less numerous ; inner web of out- 

 ermost primary without distinct whitish spots (except, sometimes, one 

 near base), and bristly tips to feathers of face greatly developed (as 

 in 0. harbarus) ; about the size of 0. harharus, but gray phase with 

 general color of upper parts ash gray instead of brown, under parts 

 white with large spots and broad streaks of black connected by black 

 crossbars, throat vinaceous-buff, lower end of tarsus feathered, and 



toes distinctly bristled. 



Gray phase. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — General color of upper parts brownish gray, 

 coarsely vermiculated with dusky, broadly streaked with black (the 

 streaks more or less jagged or serrated and broadest on forehead 

 and crown), the sides and posterior border of pileum irregularly 

 spotted with dull buffy white, the lower hindneck with much larger, 

 transversely ovate, spots of the same; outer webs of exterior scapu- 

 lars with a very large subterminal subovate spot of duU buffy white 

 or brownish white, the tip more or less broadly margined with black; 

 outermost middle and greater wing-coverts with similar large spots; 

 secondaries banded with mottled darker and paler grayish brown; 

 outer webs of primaries with large, semiovate or subquadrate spots 

 of dull brownish white, more strongly tinged with brownish buffy on 



