708 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



OTUS PINOSUS (Nelson and Palmer). 



LAS VIGAS SCREECH OWL. 



Young Tnale.^ — ^^lost nearly resembling the young of 0. tricTiopsis, 

 but very much darker above, under parts much more broadly barred 

 with dark sooty brown, and spots on outer webs of primaries relatively 

 smaller (not wider than the darker interspaces) and more strongly con- 

 trasted; decidedly smaller. 



Above deep sooty brown (between warm sepia and fuscous; 

 broken by spotting of lighter brown and broad though rather indis- 

 tiQct irregular bars of blackish; secondaries dusky grayish brown, 

 the innermost ones (tertials) crossed on distal portion by two or 

 three narrow, irregular bands of light cinnamon-drab and narrowly 

 tipped with the same, the dusky interspaces broken by irregular 

 mottlings of lighter grayish brown; other secondaries and proximal 

 primaries with rather large and very distinct spots of cinnamon-drab 

 on outer webs, the distal primaries (except outermost) with the spots 

 larger and dull white on portion anterior to sinuations; primary 

 coverts very dark sooty brown, their outer webs spotted with cinna- 

 mon-drab; tail dark sooty brown crossed by narrow irregular, inter- 

 rupted bands of cinnamon-drab; face grayish white barred with dark 

 sooty brown or sooty black, except on lores, the bristly feathers 

 of which have very long and slender hair-like tips; a narrow band of 

 sooty black across posterior end of auricular region; chin dull white, 

 narrowly barred with dusky; rest of under parts dull white, more or 

 less tinged with pale brownish buff, very broadly barred with dark 

 sooty brown, the bars averaging about 20 mm. in width on breast to 

 30 mm. on flanks; length (skin), 170; wing, 130; tail, 58; culmen, 

 from cere, 10.^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Las Vigas, at north- 

 eastern base of the Cofre de Perote, 8,000 feet altitude). 



Megascops pinosus Nelson and Palmer, Auk, xi, Jan., 1894, 39 (Las Vigas, Vera 

 Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Ridgway, in Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 17, footnote (full descr.; crit.). 



Scops pinosus Gurnet, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



[Scops'] pinosa Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



OTUS VINACEUS (Brewster). 

 chihitAhua screech owl. 



Similar to 0. cooperi, but much smaller and lighter colored; also 

 resembling 0. asio cineraceus, but color of upper parts less ashy 

 (pale drab) and more minutely vermiculated, dark pencilings on 

 under parts narrower, and toes more scantily feathered. 



a The young female and adults of both sexes are unknown. 



b One specimen (the type), in which the remiges and rectrices are fully developed. 



