BIBDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEKIOA. 719 



hastate spots; under parts much more deUcately and less regularly 

 barred, and with little, if any, ochraceous or buff on underlying por- 

 tion of pliunage; feet relatively smaller. (Not dichromatic ?) 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts light grayish 

 brown, this much broken by coarse mottling of paler (nearly brownish 

 white on forehead and sides of crown) and very distinctly marked, 

 especially on pilemn, hindneck, and back, with irregular spots of 

 blackish, these sometimes approaching a rhomboid or hastate form; 

 outermost middle and greater wing-coverts with outer webs mostly 

 white; primary coverts banded with dusky and pale brownish buffy 

 (about four bands of each color); outer webs of primaries spotted 

 with buffy whitish, changing to pale buffy brown on proximal quiUs; 

 tail banded with grayish dusky and grayish buffy; face dull grayish 

 white, narrowly and rather indistinctly barred with grayish brown, 

 the outer edge tinged with pale brown and, laterally, bordered with 

 an indistinct or broken bar of brownish black across side of head; 

 under parts dull white, narrowly and very irregularly barred or ver- 

 miculated with dusky brown, two bars or lines of the latter color often 

 inclosing a broader one of pale brown, especially on flanks, most of 

 the feathers also with irregular mesial streaks of brownish black, 

 broadest and most conspicuous on chest; legs dull whitish, barred 

 with dusky brown. 



AduU male. — Length (skin), 197.5; wing, 151.5-154 (153); tail, 

 79.5; culmen, from cere, 11.5-12 (11.8).» 



Adult female. — ^Length (skin), 213.5; wing, 157; tail, 81; cubnen, 

 from cere, 13.* 



Western Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatl&n) and JaUsco (Mine- 

 ral de San Sebasti&n) and Territory of Teplc. 



[Scops brasiliarms] d. guatemalse (not Scops guatemalx Sharpe) Kidgwat, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. MuB., i, 1878, 99-102, part (spec, from Mazatlaai, Sinaloa, described 



on p. 101). 

 Megascops hastatus EroGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 17, Aug. 1, 1887, 268 



(type labeled "La Paz, Lower CaUfomia, " but almost certainly from Mazatlan, 



Sinaloa; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 



593, 614.— Hasbkouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 263. 

 Scops hastatus Gxtbnet, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 23 (Mazatlaai; Tepic; Mineral de San Sebastian, 



Jalisco). 

 [Scops'\ hastata Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 283. 



OTUS HASTATUS THOMPSONI (Cole). 

 YTTCATAN SCREECH OWL. 



Very similar to 0. h. hastatus, but averaging slightly more buffy 

 brownish above and less densely barred or vermiculated beneath; 

 slightly larger. 



" Three specimens; two of them not sexed, but almost certainly males. 

 * One specimen. 



