288 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Scops clioliha (nee Vieill.), Cab. in Scliomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 733, 



1848. 

 Scops hrasiliamis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 108, 187o ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1886, p. 71 (Koraima, 3500 ft.) ; Lloyd, Timebri (2) xi. p. 9, 



1897 (Roraima). 

 Scops roraimee Salvin, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vi. p. 38, 1897 (Roi'aima). 

 Otus roi'aima Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 75, no. 691, 



1912. 

 P Scops asio Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 733, 1818. 

 Otus crucigerus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 75, no. 692, 



1912. ■ 



" Little Scops Owl " {Lloijd.) 



Adult male [hrown phase). General colour of the upper surface 

 dusky brown with indistinct darker lines, buif frecklings, and 

 white spots ; outer webs o£ outer scapulars pure white ; quills 

 and tail-feathers much more coarsely marked, but the colours 

 similar ; feathers of the facial disc whitish, minutely barred with 

 brown ; under surface white with blackish longitudinal lines and 

 mottled cross-bars ; under wing-coverts and thighs buff with 

 minute dark markings. 



Total length 220 mm., culmen 22, wing 175, tail 78, tarsus 33, 

 middle toe and claw 26. 



The male described was collected at Bartica. 



There is, in the McConnell collection^ an example of the bright 

 rufous phase with the dark markings distributed much the same 

 as those in the bird described, and another from the Abary River 

 which is intermediate in colour between the two. 



We have examined the type of O. roraimce (Salvin), which is in 

 the British Museum, and we are of the opinion that the characters 

 given for its separation are not tenable and it must, therefore, be 

 regarded as a synonym of 0. crucigerus Spix. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in Briiish Guiana. 



Nest. "In holes of trees'' (C. A. Lloijd). 



Eggs. " Said to lay one to two eggs " [C. A. LJoijd). 



Bange in British Guiana. Bartica, Abary River {McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima, 3500 h.{Whitelg). 



Ea'tralimital Range. Venezuela, Margarita Island, Colombia, 

 Eastern Peru. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 733), under 

 the name of Scops asio, that he found it in the woods and that the 

 "Macusis" call it Kerepunuma and the " Waraus" Muro. 



Mr. C. A. Lloyd (Timehri (2) xi. p. 9) remarks on this species 



