724 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Rufous phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above cinnamon-rufous, all the feathers, 

 except upper tail-coverts, with broad mesial streaks of black; under 

 parts white, the feathers with broad black shaft-sfcreaks and broad 

 bars of cinnamon-rufous margined with nai rower bars of black. 



Adult male (?). — Wing, 129; tail, 66; culmen, from cere, 11." 



Adult female.— Wing, 135.9-144 (140.5); taH, 68.5-69 (68.8); 

 culmen, from cere, 11.4; tarsus, 25.4; middle toe, 17.8-19 (18.2).^ 



Highlands of Guatemala (mountains near Santa Barbara, Vera 

 Paz; Baja Vera Paz; road between Coban and Chisec; Uspantan, 

 Quiche) . 



Scops Jlavimeola (not of Kaup) Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 355 (mountains of Santa Bar- 

 bara, Guatemala). 



Scops barbarus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 56 (Santa Bar- 

 bara, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); Exotic Orn., pt. vii, 

 1868, 101, pi. 51 (2 figs.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 107 (Santa 

 Barbara, Vera Paz). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878 103 (monogr.). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 23 (Santa Barbara, 

 Vera Paz). 



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



[(Scops] barbarus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 494. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. 



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



Megascops barbarus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 129 ("Mexico"). — 

 Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251 262 (geog. range). 



OTUS VERMICULATUS (Ridgway). 



VERMICULATED SCREECH OWL. 



Resembling, superficially, 0. guatemalse, but lower portion of tarsus 

 naked ^ (the feathering gradually becoming shorter toward lower por- 

 tion of tarsus), tail relatively much shorter, and coloration much more 

 uniform, the upper parts with vermiculations finer and usually with- 

 out distinct spots or streaks, the under parts usually more densely 

 vermiculated ; eyebrow never whitish (always brown or chestnut- 

 rufous). 



Brown phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above mars brown to russet-brown, densely 

 vermiculated with dusky, but without streaks, except, sometimes, on 

 crown, where, however, the blackish markings are more often in 

 form of UTCgular small spots; outer webs of exterior scapulars irregu- 

 larly spotted or blotched with white or buffy white, this sometimes 

 occupying greater part of outer web, the terminal portion of which 



« One specimen, not sexed, but small size almost certainly indicating a male. 



& Four specimens (three not sexed). 



c On account of this character I find several specimens identified as 0. nudipes! 



