102 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ferruginous, with distinct and wide blackish shaft-streaks, and broken 

 in the middle portion by whitish bars; the remainder of the lower parts 

 are white, with the transverse bars of hlaclcish so broad that the mesial 

 streaks are rendered nearly obsolete. 



Eegarding the rufous phase of this variety, Mr. Sharpe remarks [1. c. 

 p.114):- 



"The rufous phase of 8. guatemalw is quite dilfereut Irom anything 

 that I have seen from South America, being entirely of a foxy rufous 

 color, with tbe head never darker than the back or showing any approach 

 to a blackish patch; the back is generally rather narrowly streaked with 

 black, as is also the head ; and there are in some examples slight indica- 

 tions of bars." As stated on p. 94, however, the Bmzilian bird does 

 sometimes assume this bright '• foxy rufous" phase. 



A specimen in the bright rufous i)hase from Jalapa (S. E. Mexico; 

 D'Oca; Mus. Salvin & Godman) differs from the two Guatemala 8i)eci- 

 mens described above in the paler rufous of the pileum (where the usual 

 black shaft-streaks are almost entirely absent), the paler rufous of the 

 face and throat, the coarser and more ragged markings of the lower 

 surface, and the paler tarsi. In other respects, however, it is identical. 

 Compared with a rufous specimen of tS. cassini, from the same locality, 

 the differences are much more conspicuous. The latter is more like the 

 corresponding phase of IS. barbarus, being distinctly variegated above 

 with paler spotting and numerous blackish shaft-streaks, and the plctur(e 

 of the lower parts more distinct. 



List of Specimens Examined. 



^' Scops alricapillus (Natt.) Stepii.", Eidgw., in B. B. &. R. Hist. N.Am. B. Ill, 1874,48 



(I'oot-note). 

 Scops bru>iiliaiius, ^. casnini, Ridgw., MS. 



Habitat. — Eastern Mexico (Mirador ; Jalapa). 



Diagnosis.— Wing, 5.80-G.IO; tail, 3.20-3.50; culmen, .45-.50 ; tar- 

 sus, 1.20; middle toe, .80. 



Gray phase ; adult. — Above grayish-brown, finely raottled'with lighter 

 and darker shades, the general dusky brownish hue interrupted by two 

 conspicuous lighter bands, one across the nape, and the other across 



