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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Catemaco; Jalapa), 

 Puebla (Zentla) ?, and Oaxaca (Chimalapa), and southward through 

 Guatemala (Cobto; Choctflm; Cajab6n; TresAguas; Las Salinas ; Alta 

 Vera Paz) and Honduras (San Pedro; San Pedro Sula; Tigre Island ?) 

 to northern Nicaragua (Jalapa). 



-? ScLATEK and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 221 (Cajabon, Guatemak; 



(?) Scops - 



crit.).— Taylor, Ibis, 1860. 226 (Tigre I., Honduras). 

 {Scopsl hrasilianus (not Strix brasiliana Gmelin) Salvin and Godman, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 

 [Scops brasilianus.] Subsp. j8. Scops guatenwlse Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.i 



ii, 1875, 112, part (Guatemala; coll. Brit. Mus.). 

 Scops guatemalx Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, pi. 9, larger figure (brown 



phase). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 20, part 



(Catemaco and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Zentla, Puebla?; Chimalapa, Oaxaca; 



Coban, Choctun, Las Salinas, and Cajabon, Guatemala). 

 [Scops] gwatemalss Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288, part. 

 [Scops hrasilianus] 8. guatemalss Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 



90, 99, part (monogr. ; Coban, Choctun, and Las Salinas, Vera Paz, Guatemala; 



Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 Megascops brasilianus guatemalx Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 128. — 



HASBEOtrcK, Atik, x, 1893, 251, 263, part (Guatemala). 

 Otus guatemalx Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, Nov., 1906, 124, in text. 

 Megascops marmoratus Nelson, Auk, xiv, no. 1, Jan., 1897, 49 (Catemaco, Vera 



Cruz; coU. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



OTUS HASTATUS HASTATUS Ridgway. 



UAZATLAN SCREECH OWI.. 



Most nearly resembling 0. choliba, but coloration much lighter and 

 grayer above, with darker markings more distinct and less linear, 

 those on pileum and hindneck in form of irregularly rhomboid or 



Footnote — Continued. 



Some of the specimens included in the above measurements were not "sexed" by 

 the collector, but their dimensions make the sex reasonably certain. 



It is not imlikely that specimens from Honduras and Nicaragua will eventually 

 have to be separated from true 0. guatemalx subspecifically. They are more grayish 

 brown above and, specimens from Nicaragua, at least, have more white on the under 

 parts. 



