BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 731 



Bluff Lake, etc., San Bernardino Mountains, 5,000-7,500 feet), (Mex- 

 ico (near City of Mexico; Chimalpa), and Vera Cruz (San Antonio 

 Coapa; Jalapa) to Guatemala (Tecpam; Duenas; Cerro deParaimo). 



[Ephialtes] JlamTneola Lichtenstein, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 7 (Mexico; nomen 

 nudum!). 



Scops flammeola Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 226 (Mexico; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 96 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz), 133 (s. Mexico); 1864, 178 (near City of Mexico).— Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 27; no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 14.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Exotic Om., pt. vii, 1868, pi. 50, and text.— Elliot, Illustr. New 

 and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, pi. 28, and text.— Baird, in Cooper, Om. 

 Calif., 1870, 422 (Ft. Crook, California).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 319; 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 304, footnote (synonymy).— Ridgway, in Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 58.— IIenshaw, Rep. 

 Om. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 135 (30 miles south of Apache, Arizona); 

 Zool. Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 406 (south of Apache, Arizona).— Ridg- 

 way, Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 210 (Boulder Co., Colorado); Orn. 40th Par- 

 allel, 1877, 335, in text (Nevada, California?).— Deane, Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 188 (Fremont Co., Colorado).— Ingersoll, Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, v, 1880, 121 (near Mosca Pass, Colorado).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 24 (Valley of Mexico; Chimalpa, San Antonio 

 Coapa, Jalapa, and Alpine zone. Vera Cruz; Duenas and Cerro de Paramos, 

 Guatemala; California; Nevada; Colorado; Arizona). 



[Scops] flammeola Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 489. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. 



S[cops] flammeola Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 57, fig. 1. — 

 CoUES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 506. 



Scops flammeolus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 105 (Duenas, Guate- 

 mala; Valley of Mexico; w. Mexico). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1878, 104 (monogr.); iii, 1880, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 404.— 

 Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 471. — Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 V, 1883, 549 (Big Trees, Calaveras Co., California). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Om. Club, viii, 1883, 123 (between Colorado City and Manitou, and near 

 Mosca Pass, Colorado). 



Megascops flammeolus Stejneqer, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 374. — Merriam, North Am. Fauna, 

 no. 3, 1890, 39 (Grand Canon of Colorado R.). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, (i), 1892, 374, pi. 12, fig. 15 (egg).— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 260 

 (geog. range). — Smith (H. G.), Auk, x, 1893, 364 (Bear Creek Cafion, Jeffer- 

 son Co., Colorado, July 17). — Oberholser, Omis, x, no. 1, 1899, 4 (Presidio 

 Co., Texas, etc.; monogr.). — Swarth, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 9 

 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, 4,500-8,000 ft., breeding at 8,000 ft.). 



M[egascops] flammeolus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 262. 



Megascops flammeola Palmer (E. D.), Auk, xi, Jan., 1894, 78 (San Bernardino 

 Mts., Califomia, 5,000 ft.. May 26).— American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 374.— Ingraham, Auk, xiv, 1897, 403 (near 

 Beulah, Colorado, 7,200-7,800 ft., breeding).— Cooke, Birds Colorado, 1897, 

 78 (main front range Rocky Mts., Estes Park to San Luis Valley, 7,500-10,000 

 ft.; Colorado records); Bull. 44, Col. Agric. Exp. Sta., 1898, 161 (Santa F^, 

 New Mexico; Huachuca Mts., Arizona, Aug. 24; Beulah, Colorado, breeding; 

 near Boulder, Colo.-ado, Sept. 22); Bull. 29, 1900, 206 (near Beulah. under 

 7,000 ft., 6 specs., breeding; Colorado Springs, 2 specs. ; Breckenridge, Oct. 4). 



