724 BULLETIN 50, UHITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Rufous 'phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — ^Above cinnamon-rufous, all the feathers, 

 except upper tail-coverts, with broad mesial streaks of black; under 

 parts white, the feathers with broad black shaft-streaks and broad 

 bars of cinnamon-rufous margined with nairower bars of black. 



Adult male (?).— Wing, 129; tail, 66; cuhnen, from cere, 11." 



Adult female.— Wing, 135.9-144 (140.5); taU, 68.5-69 (68.8); 

 cuhnen, from cere, 11.4; tarsus, 25.4; middle toe, 17.8-19 (18.2).* 



Highlands of Guatemala (mountains near Santa Barbara, Vera 

 Paz; Baja Vera Paz; road between Cobdn and Chis6c; Uspantan, 

 Quich6). 



Scops flammeola (not of Kaup) Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 355 (mountains of Santa Bar- 

 bara, Guatemala). 



Scops barbarus Sclatbk and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 56 (Santa Bar- 

 bara, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); Exotic Orn., pt. vii, 

 1868, 101, pi. 51 (2 figs.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 107 (Santa 

 Barbara, Vera Paz). —Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878 103 (monogr.).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 23 (Santa Barbara, 

 "Vera Paz). 



S[cops] barbarus Sclatbk and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 57. 



[Scopsl barbarus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 494.— Sclatbk and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. 



[Scops] barbara Shakpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288. 



Megascops barbarus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 129 ("Mexico").— 

 Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251 262 (geog. range). 



OTUS VERMICDLATUS (Ridgway). 



VERMICXTLATED SCREECH OWL. 



Resembling, superficially, 0. guatemalse, but lower portion of tarsus 

 naked « (the feathering gradually becoming shorter toward lower por- 

 tion of tarsus), tail relatively much shorter, and coloration much more 

 uniform, the upper parts with vermiculations finer and usually with- 

 out distinct spots or streaks, the under parts usually more densely 

 vermiculated; eyebrow never whitish (always brown or chestnut- 

 rufous) . 



Browri phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — ^Above mars brown to russet-brown, densely 

 vermiculated with dusky, but without streaks, except, sometimes, on 

 crown, where, however, the blackish markings are more often in 

 form of irregular small spots; outer webs of exterior scapulars irregu- 

 larly spotted or blotched with white or buffy white, this sometimes 

 occupying greater part of outer web, the terminal portion of which 



o One specimen, not sexed, but small size almost certainly indicating a male. 



6 Four specimens (three not sexed). 



« On account of this character I find several specimens identified as 0. nudipes! 



