BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 715 



(Taquara, etc., Rio Grande do Sul, s. Brazil).— Frenzel, Joum. fur Om., 

 1891, 115 (Province of Cordova, Argentina).— Boucard and Berlepsch, 

 The Humming Bird, ii, 1892, 42 (Porto Real, Brazil).— Kerr, Ibis, 1892, 141 

 (Rio Paraguay and lower Rio Pilcomayo, Argentina).— Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., V, 1893, 141 (Chapado, Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil).— Koenigs- 

 WALD, Joum. fur Orn., 1896, 382 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 22 (San Jos^, Costa Rica; Colombia to s. 

 Brazil and Paraguay).— Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xii, 1897, 

 28 (Caiza, s. Bolivia).— Holmberg, Segundo Censo Argentina, i, 1898, 510 

 (notes). — Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 334 (Ypiranga and Iguape, 

 Brazil); iv, 1900, 88 (descr. nest and eggs), 162 (Cantogallo, s. Brazil). — 

 Baer, Ornis, xii, 1904, 228 (Tapia, Argentina). — ^Hagmann, Zool. Jabrb., 

 1907, 24 (Mexiana I.). 



S[cops] hrasilianus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 57. 



[Sco-ps] hrasilianus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



[Scops brasilianus] a. hrasilianus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 24, 

 1878, 90, 92 (monogr.). 



[Scops] hrasiliana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 484. — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 

 1899, 288. 



Scops hrasiliana Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 25 (San Miguel I., Panama). 



Megascops brasilianus Zeled6n, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 111 (Costa 

 Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 125 (La Palma de San Jos(5, Costa 

 Rica).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 128 (Cayenne; Brazil); 

 1899, 304 (Honda, centr. Colombia).— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San 

 Jos6, Costa Rica).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 1894, 68 (Trinidad; 

 notes). — Robinson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 662 (Margarita Island, 

 Venezuela; habits). — Robinson and Richmond, Proc. U, S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxiv, 1901, 169 (San Julian, Venezuela). — Clark (A. H.), Auk, xix, 1902, 

 262 (Margarita I.). 



Otus brasiliensis Temminck and Schlegel, Faima Japonica, Aves, 1850, 25, in text. 



E[phialtes] brasiliensis Gray, (Jen. Birds, i, Sept., 1845, 38. 



[Scops'] brasiliensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 46. 



[Asio] brasiliensis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 543. 



Scops brasiliensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 21; no. 36 

 (Revue), 1873, 11.— Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 557 (Trinidad; 

 crit.). 



Megascops brasiliensis Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. , iv, pt. vi, 1859, 228 (monogr.). 



OTUS GUATEMAL.S (Sharpe). 



GUATEMALAN SCREECH OWL. 



Somewhat resembling 0. choliha but with upper parts much darker 

 and more coarsely mottled, with the blackish markings in form of 

 spotg rather than streaks; face brownish or rusty instead of whitish, 

 without any whitish except, sometimes, on superciliary region or 

 basal portion of loral plumes; under parts much more coarsely, irreg- 

 ularly, and densely barred, the general surface presenting a coarsely 

 mottled and vermiculated appearance, with the general hue of the 

 darker pencilings distinctly brown, instead of black or brownish 

 black. Rufous phase differmg from that of 0. choliha in havmg the 

 rufous darker and more uniform, the back without distinct black 

 streaks and devoid of basal spots of ochraceous or fulvous, the pencil- 

 iQgs on under parts more numerous, much less distuict or regular, and 



