11(1 BFBONIP.E. 



coloured and mollled like the back, but showing also a few greyish 

 white cross bars ; tail dark brown, slightly vermiculated towards 

 the tip, which is also slightly washed with grey, the tail crossed 

 with teu regular bars of saudy rufous, jialer and inclining to white 

 towards the tip ; lores white, the shafts produced into hair-like 

 black bristles, the plumes over the fore part of the eye white, nar- 

 rowly tipped with dark brown, forming an indistinct eyebrow ; the 

 plumes on each side of the crown slightly spotted with white, form- 

 ing an inconspicuous lateral streak, to which the ear-tufts are partly 

 continuous, these being coloured like the head externally, but having 

 the inner webs white, with a few narrow lines of dark brown ; 

 sides of face greyish white, crossed with narrow zigzag lines of dark 

 brown, the hindermost broadly tipped with black, and merging in 

 the feathers of the ruff, which are buffy white, with broad black 

 tips, the gular feathers buffy white, mesially streaked with black, 

 and narrowly lined across with the same ; under surface of body 

 white, washed here and there with golden buff, the bases being of 

 this colour, every feather crossed with narrow zigzag lines of blackish 

 brown, and mesially streaked along the shaft with the same, more 

 broadly on the chest ; the under tail-coverts equally barred ; leg- 

 feathers golden buff, barred with dark brown ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish, the outer ones narrowly barred with dark brown, the 

 lower series ashy brown, yellowish at base, resembling the inner 

 lining of the quills, which are light brown below, barred for their 

 whole extent with sandy buff, inclining to yellowish near the base. 

 Total length 9-5 inches, wing 6-2.5, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-35. 



Hah. Brazil, ranging northwards through Guiana and Venezuela 

 into Columbia. 



a. Pull. st. South America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. St. South America. E. Wilson, Esq. 



c. Ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



d. Ad. st. South America. Purchased, 

 e,/, g. Ad. st. South America. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



m. Pull.sk. Bahia. Dr. "VVucherer [C.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Bahia. Purchased. 



o. Juv. St. Para. R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



p. Ad. sk. Island of Mexiaua. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



q. Ad. sk. Upper Amazons. J. La Mert, Esq. [C.]. 



r. Ad. sk. Cayenne. M. Becoem- [C.]. 



s. Ad. st. Trinidad. 



t. Ad. sk. Caracas. M. A. Salle [C.]. 



u, V. Pull. St. Caracas. M. A. SalM [C.]. 



w. c? juv. sk. Antioquia, New Granada. T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C.]. 



X, y. Ad. sk. New Granada. Pm'chased. 



Ohs. After a very careful and extended study of the American 

 Scops Owls, in which I had the assistance of the beautiful series 

 contained in the Salvin-Godman collection, I have arrived at the 

 conclusion that three different and fairly recognizable forms have 

 been confounded under the collective title of Scops hrasiliamis in 



