1^ ASIONID^. 



A. Bigitis supra plumods aut setosis. 

 1. Scops trichopsis. (Tab. LXII.) 



Scops tHchopsis, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 276'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 357 (?)==; Salv. Ibis, 1874, 



p. 314\ 

 Scops {Megascops) trichopsis, Kaup, Trans. Z. S. iv. p. 227 *. 

 Scops maccalli, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 296'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 220 ^ Duges, La Nat. i. 



p. 138 \ 

 Scops asio, var. enano, Lawr. MS., Ridgw. Ball. Essex Inst. v. p. 200°; Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., 



& Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 48°. 

 Scops enano, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 118'°. 

 Megascops adspersus, Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 87 " ; 1891, p. 400, t. 3 " ; Hasbrouck, Auk, 1893, 



p. 264". 

 Megascops ridgwayi, Nelson & Palmer, Auk, 1894, p. 39 ". 



Supra saturate cinereus, fusco yermicalatus et cervino guttatus, plumis omnibus rhacliidibus late nigris 

 nigroque transfasciatis : subtus albidus, plumis medialiter nigris et nigro distincte transfasciatis ; scapu- 

 laribus extrorsum maculis magnis albis notatis, tectricibus mediis et majoribus eodem modo picturatis, 

 remigibus fuscis in pogonio extemo albido regulariter notatis. Long, tofca circa 8"0, alae 6-1, caudee 3*0, 

 tarsi 1*1. (Descr. feminae ex Ajusco, Mexico. Mus. nostr.J 



Forma altera rufescens, nigro undique distincte guttata. 



Hob. Mexico {Br. Petz i), El Carmen iu Chihuahua {B. B. McLeod ^^), Guanajuato 

 {Duges ^), Sierra Madre de Tepic ( W. B. Bichardson), Patzcuaro {Nelson i*), Zentla 

 {Ferrari-Perez), Ajusco {W. B. Bichardson), Chimalpa in the Valley of Mexico 

 {Ferrari-Perez), Omilteme in Guerrero {Mrs. II. H. Smith), La Parada, Oaxaca 

 {Boucard ^ ^) ; Guatemala {Skinner ^), Villa Maria, Joyabaj {Eeyde, in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus.), Uspantlan, Quiche {U.S. Nat. Mus.), Dueiias, Volcan de Fuego above 

 Calderas, San Bernardo in the Motagua Valley, Coban (0. S. & F. B. G. ^) ; 

 HoNDUBAS '\{G.C. Taylor ^). 



The original specimen of this species, described by Wagler ^, formed part of the 

 collection sent by Dr. Petz to the Wiirzburg Museum from Mexico, Glaucidiitm 

 gnoma and Conurus petzi, also described by Wagler, being included in the same 

 collection, which was most probably formed on the western slope of the Mexican 

 CordUlera, where C. petzi abounds and both the Owls are found. For a good many 

 years we have used Wagler's name as we do now, though we associated with it 

 Cassin's S. maccalli, which we now consider to belong to a distinct bird. Until quite 

 recently American naturalists have applied Wagler's title to the Arizona bird now 

 called S. cineraceus, and distinguished the present species as S. enano. 



We are now in accord with Mr. Ridgway in the application of Wagler's name ; and 

 on examining specimens we sent to him for that purpose, he tells us that our S. tri- 

 chopsis is the same as S. enano, and, moreover, that Megascops adspersus, Brewster, and 

 M. ridgwayi, Nelson and Palmer, also belong to the same species. We were disposed 



