58 NORTH AMi:UI("A>; IIIUDS. 



re.s|ii'('ts, and of wliicli it is to lie rcuurilcd as a },'LM)f,'ni)tIiical mco. It was 

 first taiii'ii !)}■ Mr. K. S. IIuIiKmi, near Sacraiiiuiitu, and dcscriln-'d liy Mr. 

 Lawrc'iR'i! a.s tliu A'/ilud/lix rlmliliK of N'ii'illot. It has siiu'i! lict^ii I'ouiid in 

 iitla'r jpart.s of Calil'ornia, in Nortiieru Mexico, Arizona, and on tlio Hio 

 (iranili'. It was ulitaiiifd in Taniaiilipas — wlu-ris it i.s evidently rather com- 

 mon-- l»y tlio late Dr. Herlandier, wiio had also procured it.s eji|;s. A .sini,d(( 

 specimen of tliis Owl was ol)laiiied liy Mr. A. Schott in Te.\n.s, and Mr. 

 Dresser al.so oi)taincd two small Owls which lie doubtlully ivlers to this 

 variety, — one near San Antonio, and tlie other in I'andera County. T-ieu- 

 tenant Hentlire writes that it is (juite common in tiie vicinity ol' Tucson, 

 Arizona, thon;,di Dr. Cones did not meet with it. J)r. Kennerly oliserved it on 

 r.ill Williams Forl<, in New Mexico. It was there found living in the largo 

 t'iiru/i (/li/(iiit<ii>i so common in that region, where it occujpied the dcsctrted 

 holes of various kinds of Woodjicckers. It rarely made its appearance dui'- 

 ing the day, and then only to siiow its head from the hole, ready at any 

 moment to di.sajipcar at tlio ap]>roach of danger. On one occasion it was 

 ol),serve(l among some vei'y thick husiies near the water. It <loes not appear 

 to have been met with l)y Dr. Cooper in California, where he refers all the 

 Owls of this genus to the common asio. A single individual, referred 

 doubtfully to this bird, wius taken by Mr. Skinner in Guatemala. The eggs 

 of tliis bird, taken in Tamaulipas by Dr. IJerhindier, are of nearly globular 

 sliajjc, of a clear, almost crystal-white color, and measure 1.13 inches in 

 length by ().'J3 of an inch in breadtii. As com]»ared with the eggs of Scops 

 asio they are much smaller, their relative capacity being only as five to eight. 

 The eggs of the var. asio vary greatly in size according to their locality. 

 Those taken in Florida are so much smaller tiian those from Massachu- 

 setts as almost to be suggestive of sjiecific dillerences. An egg from Hud- 

 son, AIa.ss., taken by ^Ir. Jillson in A])ril, 1870, measures 1.50 by 1.30 

 inches, while one from Monticello, Fla., taken by Mr. Sanmel Tasco, meas- 

 ures 1.30 by l.lf) inches. Mr. T. II. Jackson, of Westchester, Penn., in- 

 forms me that he has found a nest of this Owl containing six fresh eggs, on 

 tlio 5tli of April. 



Scops flammeola, Licht. 



FEILNEB'S OWL. 



Scops Jlammcnla, Licnr. Miis. Hi-rol. Xomi'iidiit. p. 7, 1854. — Kavp, Trans. Zobl. Soc. 

 IV, 22ii. — .S(iii.r.r.F.i,, Mus. dr Pavs-Riis, nti, p. 27. — Sclat. Piw. Zoiil. Soc. 1858, 

 !)ti. — S(i,. & Sai.v. p. 'A. S. 1808, 57 ; K.xot. Oni. VII, 00, pi. 1, July, 1808. — C.kav, 

 Haiiil List, I, 47, 1869. — Elliot, Illust. Birds Am. I, pi. .\xviii. — Cones Key, 

 1872, 203. 



Pp. Char. Adnll (42.150, Ori/.aba Monntiiin.s "rare," Fi^bninrv .'!, 1805 ; Professor F. 

 Sumielirast). Groimd-eoldr above pale eiiiereoiis, this overlaid on tiie top of the head, 

 nape, and baek by a brownish-olive shade, the ash showing pure only on the borders 



