114 liXTBONID^. 



a. Ad. sk. Central America. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wnod. 



b. Pull. sk. Guatemala. Purohased. 



o. Ad. sk. Guatemala. M. A. Bouvier. (Type of species.) 



rf, (*,/■,//,/(. Ad. pk. Guatemala. M. A. Bouvier. 



i. Ad." sk. Acoyapa, Nicaragua. M. A. Marche [C.]. (Rufous 



phase.) 

 A". Ad. sk. Costa Rica. Purchased. 



/, m. n. Ad. sk. Veragua. M. E. Arcd [C.]. (Rufous 



phase.) 

 o, p. Ad. sk. Veragua. M. E. Arct5 [C.]. 



Ohs. Throughout Central America the Scops Owls have a very dif- 

 ferent aspect from those of South America : and although they have 

 all been united together as Scops hrasilidnus, the former are suffi- 

 ciently well characterized to deserve a separate name. Scops (jua- 

 temahv, as I propose to call these birds, resembles S. iistus in the more 

 mottled, not sfreaJcrd, character of the upper parts ; but the chief 

 point in which it differs from its South-American allies is in the 

 entire absence of any yellow coloxiring on the underparts. 



The rufous phase of S. r/iiateinahv is quite different from any thing 

 that I have seen from South America, being entirely of a foxy rufous 

 colour, with the head never darker than the back or showing any 

 approach to a blackish patch ; the back is generally rather narrowly 

 streaked with black, as is also the head ; and there are in some ex- 

 amples slight indications of bars. 



19. Scops asio. 



The Little Owl, Cufeshij, N. H. Carol, i. p. 7, pi. 7. 



lie Petit Due de la Caroline, Sriss. Orn. i. p. 497. 



Strix asio, Li/in. S. N. i. p. 132; Wils. Am. Orn. vi. pi. 42. fig. 1; 



Temin. PL Col. ii. pi. 80 ; Audub, B. Am. pi. xcvii. ; id. Orn. 



Bmjr. i. p. 486. 

 Red Owl, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 2.31, pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 Mottled Owl, Penti. t. c. p. 231, pi. xi. fig. 2. 

 Strix naevia, Gm. S. N'. i. p. 289 (ex Penn. ) ; Wils. Am. Orn. pi. xix. 



fig. 1. 

 Bubo asio, Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. p. 53, pi. 21. 

 Bubo stiiatus, Vieill. t. c. p. 54. 



Otus asio, Staph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 57 ; Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 25. 

 Asio asio. Less. Man. cTOrn. i. p. 117. 

 Otus nsevius. Cm. Megne Anim. 1829, p. 241. 

 SuiTiia niEvia, James, ed. Wils. Am. Orn, i. p. 96. 

 Epbialtes asio, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38. 

 Scops asio, Bp. Consp. i. p. 45 ; Kanp, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 112; 



Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 199 ; Cass. B. N. Am. p. 51 ; Schl. Mm. 



P.-B. Oti, p. 27 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 46 ; Schl. Revue Aceipttr. 



p. 9 ; Eidgic. B. N. Am. iii. p. 49 ; Coues, B. N. W. p. 303. 

 Megascops asio, Kanp, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 228. 

 Asio nsevia, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 



Red phase. General colour bay, with no transverse vermiculations, 

 but distinct mesial shaft-streaks of black, the feathers of the head 

 and neck with obsolete lateral bars of blackish ; ear-tufts coloured 



