118 liUBOKID^. 



Hah. North-western coast of North America, from the Cohimbia 

 river northward : Idaho (Midgway). 



a, b. Ad. sk. North America. E. B. Sharpe, Esq^ [P.]. 



Ad. sk. Vancouver's Island. R. Brown, Esq. [C. 



d. Ad. sk. Vancouver's Island. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.J. 



e. Ad. sk. West side of Rocky Mountains. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. /3. Scops floridanus. 



Scops asio, Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. 338. 



Scops asio, var. floridana, Ridgway, B. N, Am. iii. p. 51 ; Coues, B. 

 N. W. p. 303. 



" Similar to var. asio, but much smaller, and the colours deeper. 

 The grey stage very similar to that of var. asio, but the red phase 

 very appreciably different, in there being a greater amount of rufous 

 on the lower parts, the breast being nearly uniformly coloured, and 

 the rufous broken elsewhere into transverse broad bars, connected 

 along the shafts. Wing 5-50-6, tail 2-75-3-10." (Ridgway.) 



Hah. Florida and Lower Georgia. 



Subsp. y. Scops enano. 



Scops trichopsis. Gray, Hatid-l, B. i. p. 47 ; Scl. &^ Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 117. 

 Scops asio, var. enano, Ridgtc. B. N. Am. iii. p. 48 ; Cmies, B. N. W. 



p. 304. 



Adidt (grey phase). Above greyish brown, all the feathers coarsely, 

 though indistinctly, mottled with wavy cross lines of blackish brown, 

 with which they are also distinctly streaked down the centre ; the 

 head and neck rather more brown than the back, obscurely spotted 

 with sandy buff, the occiput barred with white, forming a slightly 

 indicated band, which is more distinct on the nape, and much more 

 so on the hinder neck, where all the feathers are barred with huffy 

 white and form a distinct collar ; scapulars distinctly barred with 

 greyish white, the outermost externally pure white, tipped with 

 black ; wing-coverts browner than the back, spotted with saudy 

 buff, the median and greater series mottled with ashy grey, and 

 haviug very large oval spots of white on the outer web, the spurious 

 quills also externally notched with white ; primary-coverts dark 

 brown, the outer ones notched with sandy buff on the external web ; 

 quills brown, mottled with greyish vermiculations on the outer web, 

 the innermost also mesially streaked with black, and resembling the 

 dorsal plumes, all the quills barred with lighter brown, inclining to 

 fulvous on the inner web and to white on the outer one, especially 

 on the primaries, which are deeply notched with pure white ; fore- 

 head and lores whitish, with dark brown tips, the feathers on the 

 sides of the crown also mottled with white, forming a tolerably 

 distinct eyebrow, the feathers below the eye sandy buff; sides of 

 face dusky white, barred with dark brown, the hindermost ear- 

 coverts broadly tipped with the latter colour, and mei-ging in the 

 ruff, the feathers composing which are clear sandy buflf, tipped with 



