4. SCOPS. 119 



black, the gulur plumes bliu-k in the centre, with narrow transverse 

 lateral Hues of the same ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface white, 

 transversely lined with blackish brown, these cross lines springing 

 from a very broad central streak of black, extremely wide on the 

 chest, and decreasing in width on the abdomen and flanks, the under 

 tail-coverts nearly entirely white, excepting a few sagittate markings 

 of dark brown near the tips ; leg-feathers white, clothing the tarsi 

 and extending on to the toes; under wing- coverts whitish, the 

 outermost slightly streaked with brown, the lowest scries ashy 

 brown, resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are toler- 

 ably uniform ashy brown below, the innermost with a few yellowish 

 bars near the base of some of the inner ones, all externally notched 

 with yellowish ; bill yellow. Total length 7-5 inches, wing 5-Go, 

 tail 2-S, tarsus 1-05. 



Young. Very similar to the adult, but much more dingy, the white 

 spots on the scapulars and wing-coverts obscured by vermiculations, 

 the three bands on the hind neck also very indistinct ; under surface 

 of body dull white, crossed with numerous duskj' brown bars, the 

 chest broadly streaked with dull brown down the centre of the 

 feathers ; on the breast a few feathers are appearing white, streaked 

 and narrowly barred with black, as in the fully adult plumage. 



Rufovs phase (not quite adult). General colour rufous, the mark- 

 ings very similar in character to those of the grey phase, but not so 

 mottled, the white spots on the scapulars and wing-coverts not so 

 distinct, the bands on the head and neck scarcely perceptible, the 

 hind neck barred with fulvous, but not forming a verj^ distinct col- 

 lar ; feathers of crown streaked with black down the centre ; sides 

 of face rufous, barred with dull brown ; throat and chest rufous, the 

 former barred with dusky brown, the latter broadly streaked with 

 black and slightly mottled with whitish bars ; remainder of under 

 surface buify white, obscurely barred with sandy rufous, many of 

 the feathers of the new plumage appearing on the breast, white 

 washed with sandy rufous, narrowly barred with black and broadly 

 streaked down the centre with the same. Total length 7*5 inches, 

 wing 5*7, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah From Mexico to Guatemala. 



a. Ad. St. Mexico. 



b. Juv. sk. W. Mexico. Alex. Dorman, Esq. [C]. 



Subsp. I. Scops trichopsis. 



Scops trichop.sis, Wayl. Ids, 1832, p. 276; Bp. Comp. Av. i. p. 40; 



Strkkl. Oni. Si/n. p. 201 ; Sdlvm, Ihi.^, 1874, p. 314. 

 Ephialtes trichopsis, Gra;/, Gen. B. i. p. 38. 

 Mrgascops trichopsis, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 227. 

 Asio trichopsis, Bp. Bet: et Mug. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Scops maccallii, Cass. B. Calif. ^- Texas, p. 180 ; id. B. N. Am. p. o2, 



pi. 30 ; BainI, Me.v. Bound. Comm. iv. pi. 1 ; Strickl. Oni. Si//i. 



p. 200 ; Scl. S,- Sal v. Ibi.«, 1859, p. 220; Gray, Haud-l. B. i. p. 47. 

 Scops asio, var. maccallii, Eidyw. B. N. Am. iii. p. 49 ; Coiws, B, 



N. W. p. 303. 



