24 HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



Tho smallor nostrils openiiig witliin thc cere, the smaller, 

 weaker bill, ilic more slendcr foct and claws, possibly 

 entitle thcse two species and their allies to subgeneric 

 distinction ; from which to Megascops proper the Amer- 

 ican Mer/ascops barbarus socms, by combination of char- 

 acters, to funiish Ihe transition. 



Owing to the scattered nature of the biographical notes 

 lipon Megascops ßammeolus, and the interest attaching 

 to thc species on account of ils rariiy, all the pubiished 

 information available has been collated in order that this 

 paper may fairly represent our present knowledge. 



MEGASCOPS FLAMMEOLUS (1) (Kaup). 



Strix flammeola Lichtenstein, Ms. in Mus. Berol. 



Ephialtes flammeola Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av., 1834, p. 7. 



Scops flammeola Kaup, Traiis. lool. Soc. Lond., 1839, IV, p. 226; 

 Sclater, P. Z. S., 1838, p. 96; Schiegel, Mus. Pmjs-Bas, Oti, 1862, 

 p. 27 ; Sclater, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 178; Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S.. 

 1868, p. 37; iid., Exot. Orn., July, 18G8, t. VII, p. 99, pl. L; Elliot, 

 JUustr. Am. Binls, 1869, t. [.pl.XXVlU; GrsiY,Ha7vlUst Binls, 1870, 

 I, p. 47; Gooper, Blrds Calif., 1870, I, p. 422; Goues, Key to N. 

 Am. Birds, 1872, p. 203 ; id., Check List. N. Am. Birds, 1873, p. 63 ; 

 Schlegel, Rev. Accip,, 1873, p. 14 ; Sclater and Salvin, Notn Av. ISco- 

 trop,, 1873, p. 117 ; Ridgway, in Baird, BreA\ . et Ridg. Htst. N. Am. 

 Land Birds, 1874, IH, p. 38, flg.; Goues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 p. 304; Henshaw, Rep. Ornith. Spec. Goll. in 1873, 1874, p. 133; 

 id., Rep. Geog. et Geol. Surv. W. 100 Mer., 1873, V, p. 406 ; Sumi- 

 chrast, La ]Sat., V, p. 237; Ridgway, Field and Forest, 1877, p.210 ; 

 id., Rep. Geol. Explor. 40 Par., 1877, IV, p. 333, in text. ; Giebel, 

 Thesaar. Ornith., 1877, lll, p. 469; Deane, Bull. iS'utt. Orn. Club, 

 1879, IV, p. 188; Ingersoll, Bull. mut. Orn. Club, 1880. V, p. 221 ; 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Cent.-Amerr, Aves, 1897, III, p. 24. 



Scops flammeolus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 1875, I, p. 103; 

 Boucard, Cat. Av., 1876, p. 91 ; Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1878, I, p. 104; id. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, IH, p. 191 ; id. Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., n° 21, 1881, p. 36; Brewster, Bull. Nut f. Orn. 

 Club, 1883, VIII, p. 123 ; (jurney, Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, p. 38. 



Megascops flammeolus Stejneger, Auk, 1883, II, p. 184; A. 0. U. 



(1) We prefer to write flammeolus instead of flammeola, for this word 

 is a perfectly good classical Latin adjectivo meanlng flame-colored; and 

 there seems to he no reason to suppose that either Lichtenstein or Kaup 

 intended to use it as a noun. 



