Plate LI. 



SCOPS BARBAPtUS, 



(GUATEMALAK OAVLET). 



Scops Jiammeola 

 Scops harbarus 



Salvin, Ibis, 1861, p. 355 (err.). 

 Scl. et Salv. P.Z.S. 1868, p. 56. 



Niger, pallido rufo punetatus et variegatus : superciliis in torquem nuctalem transeuntibus albo guttatis : scapu- 

 larium pogojaiis externis distincte albo ocellatis : primariis fusco-nigris, in pogonio esterno rufescenti-albo septies 

 transfasciftfcis : cauda nigricante, rufescente quinquies transfasciata : subtus nigricans, prsecipue in ventre ocellia albis 

 frequenter aspersus ; crisso albicante, nigro punctate : tarsis pro majore parte dense vestitis ; horum autem parte 

 augusta terminali cum digitis omnino nudis: long, tota 7'0, alsB 5'4, caudas 2'5, tarsi I'O, 



Hah. in Guatemala, prov. Veraa Paeis (Salvin). 



In his additional list of Guatemalan birds, published in the "Ibis" for 1861, Salvin has 

 referred to a specimen of Scops flammeola^i obtained by Mr. Robert Owen in the mountains of 

 Santa Barbara near San Geronimo, Vera Paz. A recent examination of this skin has convinced 

 us that it was wrongly determined, and belongs to a species essentially distinct fi-om that figured 

 in the foregoing plate. Scops barhmms is, as we have already stated, of about the same size as 

 8. flammeola^ but, as is shewn in our original description of this bird, may be at once 

 distinguished by a comparison of the tarsi of the two species. In Scops jiammeola (Fig. 1) the 

 tarsus is wholly covered all round by short thick-set feathers, which extend down to the basal 

 phalanges of the toes, quite up to if not slightly beyond the joints. In the present species (Fig. 2) 

 the feathering of the tarsus does not descend quite so far, and leaves the distal extremity 

 bare like the toes. This will be readily observed in the accompanying figures of the feet of 

 the two birds, to which is added, for the sake of comparison, a coiTcsponding figure of the foot 

 of Scops nudipes (Fig. 3), 



Other well-marked characters of plumage accompany the diversity already noticed. In 



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