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Otus barbarus (Sclater and Salvin). Bearded Screech Owl, 



Scops barbarus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1868, p. 56 (Santa 

 Barbara, Vera Paz, Guatemala); Id., Exotic Om., 1868, pt. VII, pi. 51; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 107. 

 Otus barbarus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 723. 



Range: Highlands of Guatemala. 



*Otus vermiculatus (Ridgway). Vermiculated Screech Owl. 



Megascops vermiculatus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, p. 267 (Costa 



Rica). 

 Scops guatemalae Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, pl- 9 (smaller fig. rufous 



phase). 

 [Otus] guatemalae Brabourne & Chubb, Bds. S. A., I, 1912, p. 75, No. 698. 

 Otus vermiculatus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 724. 



Range : Costa Rica to Panama and south through western Colom- 

 bia to western Ecuador.* 



i: "Costa Rica." 



*Otus nudipes ( Vieillot). Bare-legged Screech Owl. 



Bubo nudipes Vieillot, Ois. Am., Sept., I, 1807, p. 53, pi. 22 ("Greater Antilles"). 

 Scops nudipes Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, pi. 121; Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr. Amer. Aves, III, 1897, p. 25. 

 Psiloscops nudipes Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. A., I, 1912, p. 76, No. 700. 

 Otus nudipes Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 727. 



Range: Costa Rica and Panama, Colombia. 

 i: Costa Rica (La Capentera). 



*Otus flammeolus (Kaup). Flammulated Screech Owl. 



Scops flammeola Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., IV, pt. VI, 1859, p. 226 (Mexico). 



Scops flammeolus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 105. 



Otus flammeolus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 728. 



Range: Mountains of western North America, from southern 

 British Columbia and Idaho, south to southern Mexico and Guatemala. 

 4 : New Mexico 3 ; and Guatemala i . 



*Otus asio asio (Linn.). Florida Screech Owl. 



Strix asio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 92 (South Carolina). 

 Subsp. B. Scops floridanus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 118. 

 Scops asio floridanus Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Bds., special 



ed.. Ill, 1874, pi. opp. p. 51. 

 Otus asio asio Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 687. 



Range: Southeastern United States, from South Carolina, Ten- 

 nessee, and southern Illinois, south to the Gulf coast, from Louisiana 

 and possibly eastern Texas, eastward. 



tio: Florida. 



" I have not seen specimens from Colombia or Ecuador. 



