BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 719 



hastate spots; under parts much more deUcately and less regularly- 

 barred, and with little, if any, ochraceous or buff on underlying por- 

 tion of plumage; feet relatively smaller. (Not dichromatic ?) 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts hght grayish 

 brown, this much broken by coarse mottUng of paler (nearly brownish 

 white on forehead and sides of crown) and very distinctly marked, 

 especially on pileum, hindneck, and back, with irregular spots of 

 blackish, these sometimes approaching a rhomboid or hastate form; 

 outermost middle and greater wing-coverts with outer webs mostly 

 white; primary coverts banded with dusky and pale brownish buffy 

 (about four bands of each color); outer webs of primaries spotted 

 with buffy whitish, changing to pale buffy brown on proximal quills; 

 tail banded with grayish dusky and grayish buffy; face dull grayish 

 white, narrowly and rather indistinctly barred with grayish brown, 

 the outer edge tinged with pale brown and, laterally, bordered with 

 an indistinct or broken bar of brownish black across side of head; 

 under parts dull white, narrowly and very irregularly barred or ver- 

 miculated with dusky brown, two bars or lines of the latter color often 

 inclosing a broader one of pale brown, especially on flanks, most of 

 the feathers also with irregular mesial streaks of brownish black, 

 broadest and most conspicuous on chest; legs dull whitish, barred 

 with dusky brown. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 197.5; wing, 151.5-154 (153); tail, 

 79.5; culmen, from cere, 11.5-12 (11.8)."^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 213.5; wing, 157; tail, 81; culmen, 

 from cere, 13.^ 



Western Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (^lazatlan) and Jalisco (Mine- 

 T&l de San Sebastian) and Territory of Tepic. 



[Scops brasilianus] 8. guatemalse (not Scops guatevmlse Sharpe) Ridgway, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 99-102, part (spec, from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, described 



on p. 101). 

 Megascops hastatus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 17, Aug. 1, 1887, 268 



(type labeled "La Paz, Lower California, "but almost certainly from Mazatlan, 



Sinaloa; coll. U. S. Nat. Mua.); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 



593, 614.— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 263. 

 Scops hastatus Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894. 38.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 23 (Mazatlan; Tepic; Mineral de San Sebastian, 



Jalisco). 

 [Scops] hastata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 283. 



OTUS HASTATUS THOMPSONI (Cole). 



YTJCATAN SCREECH OWL. 



Very similar to 0. h. hastatus, but averaging slightly more buffy 

 brownish above and less densely barred or vermiculated beneath; 

 slightly larger. 



a Three specimens; two of them not sexed, but almost certainly males. 

 b One specimen. 



