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feet yellowish, claws lioru-colour. Total length 10 iuches, wing G-8, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus 1-55, bare part of latter 0-85. [Mvs. Salvin and Godman.) 



" Obs. My description is taken from a specimen obtained at Calobre, in 

 Veragua, by Arce, and kindly lent to me by Mr. Salvin. He has at the 

 same time lent me another specimen, obtained by the same collector in 

 Costa Rica, This latter bird differs in several points from the one 

 described, having more of the general aspect of Scops liennatus of the 

 Himalayas ; it is clear sandy in colour, the black forming regular bars 

 across the plumage, the subterminal one very broad, and giving the 

 appearance of large black spots to the upper surface ; feathers of the 

 crown centred with black, the sandy-colored interspaces forming very 

 distinct spots, the ear-tufts being still lighter, and barred across with 

 whitish ; the white spots on the scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer webs 

 of primaries very distinct, as are also the white bars on the lower sur- 

 face, many of them being apparent also on the chest-feathers 5 the quills 

 barred with ashy brown on their inner webs, inclining to sandy buft' on 

 the secondaries. Total length 9-5 inches, wnhg G-8, tail 4, tarsus 1-45, 

 bare part of the latter 0-65." 



The only specimens of this species which 1 have seen are several 

 borrowed from Mr. Salvin, and returned to him without descriptions 

 having been taken from them. I therefore quote Mr. Sharpe's account 

 of the species [1. c). 



B. — Toes only, or ivith, at Diost, the extreme lower portion of the tarsus, 

 completely nalced. 



2. SCOPS BRASILIANUS. 



a. hrasiliamis. 



Strix hrasUiana, Gmei.., S. N. I, i, 1788, 289 (ex Briss., I, 499). 



Strix choliha, Vieiix., Nouv. Diet, xiv, 1817,39 (ex Azara, Apuut. 11,218). 



Strix clecussata, Light., Verz. Donbl. 1823, 59. 



Strix crueitjera, Spix, Av. Bras. 1, 1825,22, pi. 9. 



Strix ttndulaia, Spix, /. c. pi. 10. 



? Scops lophotes, Less., Traitc, 1, 1831, 107. 



EphiaUtes arc/entiva, LiciiT., Nomencl. 18.54,7. 



j3. atricapilluf!. 

 Strix atricapiUa, "Natt.", Temm., PI. Col. II, 1838, pi. 145. 

 Ephialites watsoni, Cassin, Pr. Phila. Acad. IV, 1849, 123. 



-/. i(<.7«.s. 

 Scops itsta, SCL., P. Z. S. March 9, 18.58, 132. 



6. (jnutciitulw. 



Scops hradlianiis, suh)^p. ji. Scops' (jiKilcmaliV, Siiakim:, Cat. Striges Brit. Mns. 1875,112, 

 pi. ix. 



.1. rdssini. 



Scops hrasilianus, r. casniiii, Ridgw., MS. 



The above synonymy will serve to show what names I would bring 

 together under the specific head ot JScojjs brasllianiis (Gmel.) on account 



