PROCEEDINGS OF UiNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 95 



List of >'>2)ccimi'us Examined.^ 



Locality. 



Date. 



Aug., 1859 



Bueuos Ayrcs 



Paraguay"! June, l!?59 



Brazil... 



do 



do 



Brazil (Baliia) 



do 



do... 



Brazil (St. Gathcriue's) 



Brazil 



do 



Brazil ( Babia) 



do 



Southern Brazil 



Brazil (Pernambuco) 



Ecuador (Napo) 



Columbia (Medellina) 



do 



Columbia (Bogota) 



do : 



Guatemala 



Costa Rica (San Jos6) 



Costa Rica 



do 



6. 55 

 6.55 

 6.40 

 7.00 

 6.65 

 6.25 

 6.20 

 6.00 

 7.90 

 6.90 

 6.60 

 6.25 

 6.40 

 7.50 

 6. 10 

 6. eo 

 7.00 

 7.50 

 7.40 

 7.30 

 7. 15 

 7.00 



4.00 

 4.00 

 4. (.5 

 4.30 

 4.20 

 4. CO 



3.80 

 5. 20 

 4.40 

 4.00 

 3.70 

 4.00 

 4.90 

 3. 811 

 4.30 

 4.20 

 4.60 

 4.30 

 4.50 

 4.40 

 4.10 



1.10 



1.20 



1.20 



1.20 



1.30 



1.20 



1.20 



1.10 



1.40 



1.28 



1. 20 



1.05 



1.20 



1.50 I 



1.15 



1.30 



1.20 



1.28 



1.15 



1.25 



1.20 



1.12 



.82 

 .90 

 .85 

 .90 



.85 

 .90 

 .85 

 1.00 

 .95 

 .85 

 .75 



1.00 

 .85 

 .98 

 .98 

 .98 



1.00 

 .90 

 .95 

 .90 



* In the.se tables, tho iuitialb iu the columu headed Museum staud for the followiug : " U. S.",=United 

 States National Museum: "S. &G.",= Mus('um Salviu & Godman ; "G. N. L.",=: Museum of George N. 

 Lawrence, esq. : " M. C. Z.'",= Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ; "R.R.". = Museum 

 of R. Ridgway. In the next column, tho Irtters g, r, and b indicate the gray, rufus, and brown (or 

 intermediate) phases respectively. Tho measurement ot the culmen does not include the cere: the 

 t:iil is measured to the extreme base of the coccyx, and the middle toe to the base of the claw. 



■ ■>. ftfr>ca])UIui^? 



f Strix atricainlla, "Natt.", Tem.m., PL CoL II, 183S, pi. 145. 



Scops (tlricapiUa, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL XIII, pt. 2, 1826, p. 51, pi. 39. — Guv., 



Keg. Anim. ecL 2, 1829, 347.— lioNAP., Cousp. I, 1850, 46.— Kaup, Contr. Oru. 



1852, 112.— Stkickl., Ora. Syn. I, 1855, 202.— Burm., Tb. Bras. II, 18'36, 128. 

 Ephialites atrkapilla, Gray, Genera B. T, 1844, 38, pi. 13, fig. 2 (head).— Pelz., 



Orn. Bras. 1870, 9 (?)• 

 Megascope atrkapilla , Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV, 1859,228. 

 Aaio atricapillua, Bonap., Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 543. 

 .* Ephialites ivatsoni, Cass., Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. IV, Dec 1848,123; Joiiru. Phila. 



Acad. II, 18.52, 95, pi. xii, fig. 1. 

 Scops watsoni, Boxap., Consp. I, 1850, 46. — Gray, Haud-1. 1, 1869, 47. 

 Asia watsoni, Boxap., Rev. et Mag. do Zool. 1854, 543. 



Diagnosis. — Adult male, gray phase (Mus. O. S. & F. D. G., Eugento do 

 Gama, Brazil, Aug. 18,1820; batterer).— Wing, 0.80; tail, 4.00; culmeu, 

 .55; tarsus, 1.15; middle toe, .80. Facial circle, ear-tufts, and pileum 

 sooty-blackisb, on the latter broken by minute grayish and faint fulvous 

 mottling, this prevailing on the forehead and eyebrows; outer webs of 

 ear-tufts nearly uniform blackish, but inner webs conspicuously spotted 

 or indented with pale fulvous and whitish. Orbital region dusky — con- 

 spicuously so in front of and above the eye — the face growing paler on 

 the cheeks, next the blackish facial ring, where the color is pale grayish,. 



