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ries chiefly dusky, but outer webs broadly spotted, in transverse 

 series, with light cinnamon-rufous, the lighter spots averaging slightly 

 less in extent than the darker interspaces, these lighter colored spots 

 on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth quills about six in number 

 (beyond primary coverts) , the first three spots on these quills inclin- 

 ing to white; taU broadly barred or banded with dusky and cumamon- 

 rufous, the bands of the latter color rather narrower than the darker 

 ones, and about six in number, not counting the incomplete basal 

 one; face a mixture of cinnamon-rufous and white, the latter chiefly 

 on the "eyebrows" and chin, the former mostly around the eyes; 

 throat and foreneck cinnamon-rufous, faintly mottled with paler and 

 sparsely flecked with dusky, especially in a line directly across the 

 throat; sides of neck deeper and more uniform cinnamon-rufous; 

 under parts with tawny-rufous prevailing laterally, especially on 

 sides of breast, but white prevailmg medially and posteriorly, the 

 middle of the belly, alone, immaculate white; feathers of under parts 

 (except on legs and under tail-coverts) marked with blackish or very 

 dark rusty mesial irregular streaks, these very broad and quite black 

 on breast, narrower and more rusty on flanks; on sides of breast and 

 anterior portion of sides, where tawny-rufous prevails, this is broken 

 by irregular mottling or spotting of whitish complicated with dark 

 rusty irregular bars or vermiculations; on sides of abdomen, pos- 

 terior portion of sides, and flanks, the white is similarly broken by 

 very irregular, often interrupted, bars of rusty, varying in shade, but 

 whether light or dark connected with the dusky mesial streak, these 

 bars farther apart and more regular posteriorly; thighs light tawny or 

 ochraceous-buff, deeper on lower portion in front, where inclining to 

 light cinnamon-rufous; tarsi dull white transversely mottled on outer 

 side with dull rusty. 



Adult male (?).— Length (skins), 180-193 (186.5); wing, 139-145 

 (142); tail, 68-73.5 (70.7); culmen, from cere, 12-12.5 (12.2) .« 



Adult female. —Length, (skin), 186; wing, 150.5-151.5 (151); tail, 

 75.5-76.5 (76); culmen, from cere, 12.5-13 (12.7).^ 



Eastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Jalapa). 



Scops atricapillus (not Strix atricapilla Temminck) Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 48, footnote (Mirador, Vera Cruz). 



[Scops brasilianiLs] e. cassini Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, sig. 7, Aug. 15, 

 1878, 90, 102 (Mirador, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Scops brasilianus, e. cassini Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 

 1897, 22, in text (crit. ; orig. descr. quoted in footnote). 



[Scops] cassini Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288. 



Megascops cassini Hasbrouck, Auk, x, July, 1893, 251, 262. 



a Two specimens, not sexed but almost certainly males. 

 b Two specimens (one not sexed). 



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