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Mexico. Orizaba Mt. (spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; "Northern 

 Mexico' (spec, in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.); Valley of Mexico, City of 

 Mexico, " Western Mexico," and "Mexico," (Sharpe, Cat. Bus. Brit. Mus. 



II, 1S75, 106). 



Guatemala. Ducnas (Sharpe, 1. c— two specimens). 



Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Merriam. Dwarf 

 Screech Owl. 



The type of this subspecies, described by Dr. Merriam from 

 Ketchum, Idaho, remains unique, and is deposited in the collec- 

 tion of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Coming now to the southern members of the group, the map 

 may be taken as an illustration of the immense amount of work 

 to be done, and the wide fields for research that present them- 

 selves in this portion of the world. Despite the researches of 

 Boucald, Sumichrast and the collectors of Godman and Salvin 

 in Mexico, of Zeledon, Cherrie, Carmiol and Cooper in Costa 

 Rica, Richmond in Nicaragua, Townsend and Wittkugle 

 in Honduras, and Arce in Veragua, very few specimens of 

 Screech Owls have been secured. So far as distribution 

 goes, it may be well to state that practically nothing is 

 known or is it possible to find sufficient records upon which to 

 base anything like a correct map. Some are known only from 

 the type, others are known from a second, third and fourth 

 specimen secured at type localities, while still others have been 

 taken from such widely separated places, and the records are so 

 few, that it is next to impossible to tell what the true range is. 

 It is of course possible and highly probable that some are 

 extremely local, as is the case with members of the Trochilidie, 

 but it is to be regretted that we have not sufficient records to sub- 

 stantiate such assumption, and we can but go by those that exist. 

 With the exception of asperstts and vinace?ts (Lower Sonoran) 

 all are Tropical in their affinities, and in this connection 

 nothing further will be said. 



It seems peculiar that there should exist so much territory 

 apparently uninhabited by any members of the genus — compare 



