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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 191; wing, 153,5-156 (154.7); tail, 

 71-77 (74); culmen, from cere, 14.5.<^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 195-228 (215); wing, 160.5-165 

 (163.2); tail, 71-83 (77.6); culmen, from cere, 13.5-15.5 (14.4).^ 



Costa Rica (La Candelaria; Jimenez; Carrillo; La Palma de San 

 Jose) and Panama (Divala, ChiriquI; Calovevora, Chitra, and Calo- 

 bre, Veragua; Frijole, Canal Zone; Cana, Darien); southward 

 through western Colombia to western Ecuador (Vinces) ? '^ 



Scops brasilianics (not Strix hrasiliana Gmelin) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1870, 216 (Calovevora, Chitra, and Calobre, Veragua, Panama). 



[Scops] brasilianus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



[Scops brasilianus.] Subsp. /?. Scops guatemalse Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 

 1875, 112, part (Veragua; Costa Rica). 



Scops guatemalx Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, pi. 9, smaller figure 

 (rufous phase). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 20, 

 part (San Jos6 and La Palma de San Jos6, Costa Rica; Calobre, Chitra, Calo- 

 vevora, and Lion Hill, Panama; w. Ecuador?). 



{7)'iScops guatemalse Salvador: and Festa, Boll. Mus., Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 

 1900, 33 (Vinces, w. Ecuador; crit.). 



[Scops] guatemalse Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288, part (Panama; w. Ecuador?). 



[Scops brasilianus] d. guatemalse Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 90, 99, 

 part (Chiriqui, Panama; Chitra and Calovevora, Veragua, Panama; Costa 

 Rica). 



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

 267 (Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., 

 i, 1887, 125 (Costa Rica).— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 264 (geog. range).— 

 Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 358 (Divala, Chiriqui, Panama). 



Scops vermiculatus Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



Otus vermiculatus Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 475 (La Candelaria, 

 Costa Rica; crit.)- 



« Two specimens from Panama. 



^ Seven specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from eastern Panama (upper Rio Trinidad) 

 One adult male from western Panama (Divala) 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from eastern Panama (Cana) 



Five adult females from Costa Rica 



Wing. 



153. .5 

 156 



162 

 163.9 



Tail. 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



78 

 77.6 



14.5 

 14.5 



14.7 

 14.3 



c I have not seen specimens from either Colombia or Ecuador. There is a specimen 

 in the U. S. National Museum, the alleged locality of which is, according to the 

 original label, "Toyabdj, Quiche," Guatemala; but as the collector from whom the 

 specimen was procured collected both in Guatemala and in Panama, I am convinced 

 that a mistake has been made, probably by transposition of labels, since the specimen 

 agrees strictly in coloration and other characters with examples of the present form 

 from Panama and Costa Rica. 



