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bars of the same ; the head much more distinctly streaked with black ; 

 round the nape a white collar, the frontal j)lumcs and feathers over 

 the eye, as well as the base of the lores, white, the elongated shafts 

 of the latter blackish ; ear-tufts bay like the head, the inner webs 

 fulvous; sides of face rufous, with narrow whitish shaft- lines, the 

 hinder ear-coverts tipped with black and assimilating to the ruff, 

 ■which consists of huffy white feathers, distinctly tipped with black, 

 the gular plumes whitish, barred with rufous ; chin whitish ; rest of 

 under surface white, barred across with rufous, some of these rufous 

 bars fringed with conterminous narrow lines of brown, many of them 

 centred with black, the streaks dilating into bars on the chest-feathers; 

 under tail-covcrts white, with only a subterminal spot of i-ufous ; 

 leg-feathers tawny on the thighs, shading off into huffy white on the 

 tarsus ; under wing-coverts j'ellowish, with a few rufous markings 

 near the edge of the wing ; scapulars with the usual white spots on 

 the outer web ; wing -coverts rather deeper bay than the back, but 

 otherwise marked in the same manner, with large oval spots of 

 white on the outer web ; quills dark brown, numerously chequered 

 with rufous bars on the outer web, inclining to fulvous on the pri- 

 maries ; upper tail-coverts nearly uniform bay ; tail dark brown, 

 narrowly banded with rufous, the bars broader, and inclining to buff 

 on the outer web ; bill greenish horn-colour, yellowish at tip and 

 on the lower mandible ; feet yellowish. Total length 7 inches, 

 wing 5-25, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-05. (Mus. Sahin and Godman.) 

 Mab. Santa Barbara, Yera Paz, Guatemala. 



18. Scops brasilianus. 



Le Hibou de Bresil, Briss. Om. i. p. 499. 



Strix brasiliana, Gm. S. N. i. p. 289. 



Choliba, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 218. 



Strix choliba, VieiU. N. Diet. cFHist. Nat. vii. p. 39. 



Strix decussata, Licht. Verz. Dmihl. p. 59. 



Strix atricapilla, Temm. PI. Col. ii, pi. 145. 



Strix crucigera, Spix, Av. Sras. i. p. 22, pi. 9. 



Strix undulata, l^ix, Av. Bras. i. p. 23, pi. 10. 



Scops atricapilla, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 51, pi. 39; Cuv. 



Regne An. 1829, p. 347 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 40 ; Kmip, Contr. Om. 



1852, p. 112 ; StricM. Om. 8i/n. p. 202 ; Bwm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 128. 

 Scops lophotes, Less. Traite, p. 107 ; Fiicher. Rev. et Maq. de Zool. 



1849, p. 22 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 46 ; Strkkl. Om. Si/n. p. 204 ; Scl. ^■ 



Sah: Ex. Om. p. 102 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 47. 

 Scops portoriceusis, Less. Traite, p. 107; Pucher. Rev. et Maq. de 



Zool. 1849, p. 26 ; Scl. 8; Sah. Ex. Om. p. 102 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 47. 

 Athene undulata, Gray, Ge)i. B. i. p. 35. 



Ephialtes choliba, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38 ; Pelz. Om. Bras. p. 9. 

 Ephialtes brasiliensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38. 

 Ephialtes portoricensis, Gray, I. c. p. 38 ; Des Murs, Lconogr. Om. 



pi. 26. 

 Ephialtes lophotes, Gray, I. c. p. 38. 

 Ephialtes atricapilla, Gray, I. c. p. 38, pi. 13. fig. 2 (head) ; Pelz. Oni. 



Bras. p. 9. 



