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Scops asio, var. maccalU Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Ilist. N. Am. 



Birds, iii, 1874, 52, part (in synonymy only). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



i, 1878, 151 (Ft. Brown, Texas; descr. eggs). 

 [Scops asio.] Var. maccallii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 203. 

 [Scops asio] c. maccallii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303 (excl. syn. Ephialtes 



choliba Lawrence). 

 [Scops asio] ^. maccalli UioGW AY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 106, 109, 



part « (monogr.). 

 Scops asio maccalli Coues and Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 



iv, no. 1, 1878, 39 (Hidalgo, Texas).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 



1880, 7, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 402&.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 33, part (lower Rio Grande Valley).— Nehrling, Bull. 



Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 192 (Houston, Texas). & 

 S[cops] a[sio] maccalli Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 506. 

 Megascops asio maccalli Stejneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. 

 Scops asio . . . var. ynaccallii Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 3186. 

 Scops enano (not Scops asio, var. enano Lawrence) Brewer, Ibis, 1878, 488 (Ft. 



Brown, Texas). 

 Scops asio enano Coues and Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 



V, 1879, 417 (Lomita Ranch, Texas). 

 Megascops asio trichopsis (not Scops trichopsis \Y3iglcr) American Ornithologists' 



Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 3736, part. 

 M[egascops] asio trichopsis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 261, part. 



OTUS ASIO HASBROUCKI Ridgway. c 



HASBROTTCK'S SCREECH OWL. 



Similar in pattern of coloration to 0. a. mccaUii but decidedly 

 larger, darker, and much less buffy gray above, and under parts 

 much more heavily penciled, the transverse bars, especially, being 

 much broader, as well as more numerous; motthng of legs much 

 darker brown; rufescent phase similar to that of 0. a. nxvius. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 211-220 (215.5); wing, 165.5-166.5 

 (166); tail, 80.5-82 (81.2); culmen, from cere, 14-14.5 (14.2).'^ 



North-central Texas, in Palo Pinto and Dallas counties; Gaines- 

 ville, Cook County?; McLennan County?; Eastland County?; Lam- 

 pasas County ? 



Megascops asio mccallii (not Scops mccallii Cassin) Hasbrouck, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 237 (Eastland Co., Texas); x, 1893, 254, part (geogr. range; Gainesville, 

 Cook Co., Texas). 



Megascops asio trichopsis (not Scops trichopsis Wagler) Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 

 257, part (Palo Pinto and Lampasas counties, Texas). 



a All the specimens enumerated in table on p. Ill belong to O. trichopsis! 



b Possibly 0. a. asio. 



cNew subspecies. (Type, no. 153359, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Palo Pinto County, 

 Texas, Sept. 9, 1888; E. M. Hasbrouck.) 



<i Two specimens from Palo Pinto County, Texas. 



Two adults (sex not determined) from Dallas, Dallas County, one of them in rufous 

 phase, measure as follows: Length (skins), 213-215 (214); wing, 161-164 (162.5); 

 tail, 77-82 (79.5); culmen, from cere, 14-16 (15). 



