52 NUllTII AMEUICAN 13IUDS. 



America, and the S. (driatpillu, Tenmi., of Trcipical America generally. The 

 culur.s, as may bo expected, are also darker and richer. 



In the collection of the .Smith.sonian Institution there are huth red and 

 gray birds from Florida; u red one (Xo. o.SJ?, Indian Jlivi.r ; i)r. A. W. 

 Wall) measiues, wing, o.5U ; tail, 2.70 ; eulmen, .55 ; tarsus, 1.U5 ; middle 

 toe, .05 ; ear-tufts, .70. The colors are much darker than those of typical 

 am). 'J'he rufous of the neck, all around, shows obsolete darker transverse 

 bars ; the black border to the white scapular sjjots is restricted to the tiii, as 

 in the gray idumage ; the inner webs of the ear-tufts are scarcely jjaler than 

 the outer; the neck and face ure deeper rufous, while the rufous of the 

 lower parts is more general, and more in transverse rays ; tibia' and tarsi 

 plain rufous ; the middle of the uljdomen and the anal region only are pure 

 white. 



Scops asio, var. maccalli, Cass. 



WESTEBN MOTTLED OWL. 



Scops maccalli, a^s.s. Rirds t'al. & Tex. p. 180, ISSl) ; liiiils X. Am. 1858, 52. — Stkicki.. 

 Oni. Syii. I, 200, 1805. — Cor ks, I'lod. Orn. Ariz., ji. 13, ISOit. — Sci,. &. S.m.v. P. Z. S., 

 1SC8, 57 {= In'c/wpsis, AVagi,. Isis, 1832, 27(i I see reiiiiuks l)clo\v). — IjAIKK, Mox. 

 Bound. IF, 4, ])1. i. — (iray. Hand List, I, 4", 1809. Scojis a,\io, v.ir. vuiccalli (Uidu- 

 WAy) Couks, Key, 1872, 203. JSphialks choliba (not of Vioillot !), Lawr. Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. VI, 1853, p. 4. 



Chak. Adult (9,147, Camp 118, New Mexico, Fcliniary 10, 1854 ; Konnerly and 

 Moliliausen). Above (.'inoreous, the ashy appearaueo being caused by a minute trans- 

 verse mottlinpj of blaclcisli .ind pale ashy, on a deeper ash {rround ; eaeli feather with a 

 distinct nu?dial stri])e of l)laelc, these liroadest on tlie foreliead ; outer welis of only a few 

 .scapulars white, these not bordered with black; outer webs of two or three lower middle 

 a)id second.'iry coverts vhite. Seo.'iidaries with about, seven trai^vers*, mottled pale 

 Viands ; primaries with about ei<iht transver.se .series of white spots ; tail with about eight 

 nari'ow pale bands. 



Ear-coverts, checks, throat, neck, and juiruhnn (inely and uniforndy barred transversely 

 with dusky and ttrayish-white ; the facial eircl(! interru])tcd across the throat, where in its 

 place is a series of lonprilndinal black dashes. 



Lower parts irrayish-white, with numerous, very narrow transverse bars of du.sky, ' 

 rather more distant from each other than those of the neck, etc.; each feather with a 

 medial narrow stripe of black, tho.se on the breast forming conspicuous si)ots ; tibi;c and 

 tarsi dull soiled white, with ninnerous spots of dark brown : lower tail-eoverls innnacn- 

 late. Winjr-formula, >1 = 4-2, 5, 0, 7, 8-1-!). Wing, C.,'"jO; tail, 3.30; cidmen, .oo ; 

 tarsns, 1.1.5; middle toe, .70; ear-tufts, .S"). 



(.\ .specimen from California (.'Stockton, K. S. Holden), kindly sent by Mr. Lawnjnce for 

 cxa.iiination, differs from the preceding in rather more brown ground-color above ; the 

 black shaft-streaks nmre obscure. In other respects as regards ])lmiiage it is the same, 

 and is typical mnccalli. The size is less, it measuring, wing, 0.20; tail, 3.10.) 



Young (first full, but incomplete plumage; ](i,!)32, Cape St. Luca."!, Lower California). 

 Secondaries, primaries, and tail as in the gray adull. Rest of the plumage transversely 

 barred with grayish-white and dusky, the latter predominating on the u])per parts; eye- 

 brows and lores white ; rings finely transversely mottled with white, this Ibrmiug spots 



