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" Scojys asio", Ridgw., Bull. Essex Inst. Nov. 1873, 1P5 (Colorado). 



Scops asio, e. maxivellm, Ridgw., Field and Forest, June, 1877, 210, 213 (Boulder Co., Colo- 

 rado ; resident; breeding). 

 Mi-s. MaxxoeWs Owl, Ridgw., /. c. 



Habitat. — Mountaius of Colorado (Boulder Co.; resident aud breed- 

 ing; Ilrs. Maxwell). 



Diagnosis. — Groundcolor above pale gray or grayish-brown, relieved 

 by the usual ragged mesial streaks of black, and irregular mottlings 

 and vermiculations of lighter and darker shades. The groundcolor, how- 

 ever, never inclining strongly to reddish, and not darker in shade than 

 a very light ash-gray or brown. The white spots on outer webs of the 

 primaiies frequently covfiuent, the darker spots, in extreme cases, being 

 hardly visible on the basal portion of the quills when the wing is closed. 

 Face grayish white, with faint vermiculations of darker grayish. No 

 rusty gular collar., but in its stead sparse, narrow bars of brown or 

 rusty on a white ground. Wing, G.80-6.90; tail, 3.90-4.10; culmen, .60j 

 tarsus, 1.45-1.50; middle toe, .80-.85. 



Tbe characteristics of this form are remarkably constant, a series of 

 a dozen or more specimens affording no instance of notable variation. 



6. SCOPS TRICHOPSIS? 



f Scops trichopsis, Wagl., Isis, 1832, 27fi (Mexico).— Bot^AP., Consp. I, 1850, 46.— 

 Stkickl., Oin, Syn. I, 1855, 201.— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 314.— Bouc, Cat. Av. 

 18^0, 91 (Mexico). 

 Ephialites trichopsis, GiJAY, Genera B. I, 1844, 33. 

 Mcfjascops irichopsis, Kaup, Trans. Zool. See. Lend. IV, 1862, 227. 

 Asio trichopsis, Bonap., Rev. et Mag. f"e Zool. 1854, 543. 



Scops asio, subsp. 6. Scops Irichopsis, Shaepe, Cat. Strig. Brit. Mus. 1874, 119 (W. 

 Mexico). 

 "Ephialites choUba", Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. VI, 18.J3, 4 (nee Vieill.). 

 Scops asio var. inoccalli, Coves, Key, 1872,203; Check List, 1873, 65, no. 318 b. — Ridgw., 

 in B. B. & R. Ill, 1874, 49, 52. 



Habitat. — Western Mexico, and the extreme southwestern portion of 

 the United States (Texas; Cassin. New Mexico; Nat. Mus. Stockton, 

 Cal.; Mu.s. G. N. Lawrence.) 



Diagnosis.— Achilt (No. 9,147, New Mexico, Feb. 10, 1854 ; Kennerly 

 and IMollliauseu) : — Above light ash-gray, minutely vermiculated with 

 dusky and grayish-white, each feather with a distinct mesial stripe of 

 blackish, showing in strong relief ; these stripes broadest on the fore- 

 head. Outer webs of the exterior row ot scapulars white, without 

 black terminal borders ; outer webs of two or three lower, middle, and 

 greater wing coverts also white ; outer webs of primaries marked with 

 transverse series of white sj)ots, these forming about eight bands across 

 the larger quills. Tail crossed by about eight narrow, pale l>ands. Ear- 

 coverts, clietks, throat, and jngulum finely and uniformly barred trans- 

 versely, or vermiculaied, witli dusky and j-rayish-vvhite; the facial 

 circle interrupted across the tbroat, where, in its place, is a series of 



