694 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Scops (mo, var. maccalli Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, iii, 1874, 52, part (in synonymy only) .—Mbkeill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



i, 1878, 151 (Ft. Brown, Texas; descr. eggs). 

 [Scops asio.'\ Var. maccalUi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 203. 

 [Scops asio] c. rmccallii Coubs, Birds Norttwest, 1874, 303 (excl. syn. Ephialtes 



choUba Lawrence). 

 [Scops asio] fi. maccalli Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 106, 109, 



part « (monogr.). 

 Scops asio maccalli Coues and Sennbtt, Bull. TJ. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 



iv, no. 1, 1878, 39 (Hidalgo, Texas).— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 



1880, 7, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 4026.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 



Om. Club, vii, 1882, 33, part (lower Rio Grande Valley).— Neheling, Bull. 



Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 192 (Houston, Texas).6 

 S[cops] a[sio] maccalli Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 506. 

 Megascops asio maccalli Stbjneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. 

 Scops asio . . . var. maccallii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 3185. 

 ■Scops enano (not Scops asio, var. enano Lawrence) Brewer, Ibis, 1878, 488 (Ft. 



Brown, Texas). 

 Scops asio enano Coubs and Sennbtt, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 



V, 1879, 417 (Lomita Ranch, Texas). 

 Megascops asio trichopsis (not Scops trichopsisWagler) American Ornithologists' 



Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 3736, part. 

 M[egascops] asio trichopsis Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 261, part. 



OTUS ASIO HASBROUCKI Ridgway." 



HASBROrrCK'S SCREECH OWL. 



Similar in pattern of coloration to 0. a. mccaUii but decidedly 

 larger, darker, and much less buffy gray above, and under parts 

 much, more heavily penciled, the transverse bars, especially, being 

 much broader, as well as more numerous; mottling of legs much 

 darker brown; rufescent phase similar to that of 0. a. nsevius. 



Adult Tndle.—Length. (skins), 211-220 (215.5); wmg, 165.5-166.5 

 (166); tail, 80.5-82 (81.2); cuhnen, from cere, 14-14.5 (14.2).'* 



North-central Texas, in Palo Pinto and Dallas counties; Gaines- 

 ville, Cook County ? ; McLennan County ? ; Eastland County ? ; Lam- 

 pasas Coimty ? 



Megascops asio mccallii (not Scops mccallii Cassin) HasBkouck, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 237 (Eastland Co., Texas); x, 1893, 254, part (geogr. range; Gainesville, 

 Cook Co., Texas). 



Megascops asio trichopsis (not Scops tiHchopsis Wagler) Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 

 257, part (Palo Pinto and Lampasas counties, Texas). 



" All the specimens enumerated in table on p. Ill belong to 0. trichopsis/ 



b Possibly 0. a. asio. 



cNew subspecies. (Type, no. 153359, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Palo Pinto County, 

 Texas, Sept. 9, 1888; E. M. Hasbrouck.) 



<i Two specimens from Palo Pinto County, Texas. 



Two adults (sex not determined) from Dallas, Dallas County, one of them in rufous 

 phase, measure as follows: Length (skins), 213-215 (214); wing, 161-164 (162.5); 

 tail, 77-82 (79.5); culmen, from cere, 14-16 (15). 



