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dusky ; beneath white, with faint, but sharply defined narrow bars of 

 pale grayish brown. Male (No. 10,007, Prairies of Texas) ; Wing, 

 8-30; tail, 4-20; tarsus, 1-70; middle toe, 1-50. Female (No. 10,005, 

 same locality); wing, 8-20. Hab. Southwestern prairies — Staked 

 Plains? 



Strix flammea^ var. Guatemaloe, Ridgway. 



Ch. In color resembling var. flammea of Europe, more than var. 

 pratincola of North America, but more uniform above, and more 

 coarsely speckled below. Wing, 11-30-13-00; tail, 5-30-5-90; tarsus, 

 2-55-2-95 (extremes of a series of thirteen specimens). Ilab. Central 

 America, from Panama to Guatemala. 



Syrnium nebulosum, var. Sartorii Ridgway. 



Ch. Larger than the average of var. nebulosum, and the colors 

 much darker and less tawny, being merely blackish sepia and clear 

 white ; face without the darker concentric rings of the North Amer- 

 ican form. Wing, 14-80; tail, 9-00. Ilab. Eastern Mexico (Mirador). 

 (Type, No. 43,131, ? ad., Mirador; "pine region." Dr. C. Sartorius.) 



Remakks. — This form is very difFerent from var. fid- 

 vescens (Scl. aud Salv. P. Z. S., 1868, 58) from Guate- 

 mala. I have seen a specimen of the latter collected by 

 Van Patten, and now in the Museum of the Boston Soci- 

 ety. The var. nebulosum stands between the two, being 

 intermediate in nearly all its characters. 



Scops asio, var. Floridanus Ridgway. 



Cu. Much smaller than var. asio and more richly colored in the 

 rufous plumage, the red prevailing on the lower parts, where it is 

 much broken into transverse bars. Wing, 5-50-GOO; tail, 2-75-3-10. 

 Ilah. Florida. (Type, No. 5,857, Indian Eivcr, Florida.) 



8cops asio, var. enano Lawrence. Ms. 



Cn. Small, like var. Floridana, but the colors diflereut. Gray 

 plumage like that of var. asio, but the mottling above much coarser, 

 and tlie nape with a strongly indicated collar of rounded white spots, 

 in pairs on opposite webs. The red plumage not seen. Hab. Eastern 

 Mexico, south to Guatemala. 



