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HARRY C OBERHOLSER. 



Utah. — Salt Lake Cily? 



riio ])rcseiil l'orni of Meyascops was first IjroiigliL to the 

 nolice of orniLliologists in 1891, when Dr. Merriam de- 

 scribed it from a single specimen shot in a low pine free 

 among the slraggling limber on a moiinlain along ihe 

 West side of Big Wood River, only a few miles north of 

 Ketchnm, Idaho, September 22, 1890. With the exeeption 

 of the three birds from sonthern California, which may 

 eventnally prove subspecilically distinct, but a single 

 additional specimen has been taken, that in 189G by Prof. 

 Hindshaw, on the Snake River, Washington. 



Concerning the habits, nest and eggs of Megascops f. 

 idahoensis nothing is known, bnt there is every reason 

 to snppose that they do not differ from those of il7. flatn- 

 meolus proper. All we know of Ihe food of idaJioensis is 

 that the stomach of the type contained grasshopi)ers, ants 

 and other insccts. 



In the following list of measnrements, an asterisk 

 designates those examples which hilherto have never 

 been recorded. 



