56 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON NEW BIRDS. [.1,111. '23, 



We are acquaintecl with six species of this genus, which is ilivisihle 

 into two sections as follows : — 



a. Tiendrocops. 

 (1)1). picumnus (Licht.), ex Brasil. reg. sylv. 



(2) D. puncticoUis, nohis, ex Guatemala. 



(3) D. vnlidus (Tsch.) : Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184. 1). 

 multostrigatus, Eyton. Ex Peruvia orient, et Nov. Granada. 



h. Venrlrocolaptes. 



(4) D. certhin (Bodd. ex PI. Enl. 621). B. cnyennensis, auct. 

 ex Grnelin. Premnocopus undulatus, Cah. Ex Guiana et Amazonia 

 inf. 



(.5) i). radiolatus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 7o.i, ex Peruv. 

 orientali. 



(6) D. sancti-thomce (Lafr.), ex Panama, Costa Rica, et Guatemala. 



(7) D. concolor, Pelzeln, ex Amazonia. 



There are specimens of all these species in Sclater's collection. 

 We have not yet met with B. pallescens, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 61. 



3. Scops barbarus, sp. nov. 



Scops Jlammeola, Salvin, This, 1861, p. 3.5.5 (err.). 



Niger, pallida rufo punctatus et varieyatus : superciliis in torquem 

 nuchalem transeuntibus, alho guttatis : scapularium pogoniis 

 externis distincte alho ocellatis : primariis fusco-nigi'is, in po- 

 gonio externo rufescente albo septies transfasciatis : cauda 

 nigricante, rufescente quinquies transfasciata : subtus nigricans, 

 prcecipue in ventre ocellis albis frequenter aspersits; crisso albi- 

 canle, nigro punctata : tarsis j)ro majore parte dense vestitis ; 

 horum autejn parte terminali cum digitis omnino nudis : long, 

 tola 7, alee 5'4, caudce 2'5, tarsi 1. 

 Hah. Guatemala, prov. Verse Pacis. 



The type specimen of this apparently undescribed Scops, now in 

 the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, was sent to Salvin 

 from Vera Paz in the year 1866. The bird referred to by Salvin as 

 Scops flammeala, as quoted above, turns out to be a rufous variety 

 of the same species. 



Scops barbarus, as we propose to term it, the last-mentioned 

 example having been obtained near the village of Santa Barbara, in 

 Vera Paz, is readily distinguishable from every other American Scops, 

 except Scops fammeola, by its small size. From the latter it may 

 be at once distinguished by the feathering of the tarsus terminating 

 above its distal end, and leaving a narrow naked ring round its lower 

 end (see fig. 2). In Scops ftamrneola (fig. 1) the feathering is con- 

 tinued rather beyond the extremity of the tarsus, and covers the basal 

 joints of the anterior phalanges. The present bird is also remark- 

 able for the round white spots which thickly cover its under plu- 



