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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult TmZe.— Length (skin), 191; wing, 153.5-156 (154.7); tail, 

 71-77 (74) ; culmen, from cere, 14.5." 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 195-228 (215); wing, 160.5-165 

 (163.2); tail, 71-83 (77.6); cuhnen, from cere, 13.5-15.5 (14.4) .» 



Costa Rica (La Candeliria; Jimenez; Carrillo; La Pahna de San 

 Jos6) and Panamfi, (Divala, ChiriquI; Calov6vora, Chitra, and Calo- 

 bre, Ver&gua; Frijole, Canal Zone; Cana, Dari^n); southward 

 through western Colombia to western Ecuad6r (Viaces) ? " 



Scops brasilianus (not Strix hrasiliana Gmelin) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1870, 216 (Calovevora, Chitra, and Calobre, Veragua, Panama). 



[Scops] brasilianus Sclatbe and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



[Scops brasilianus.'] Subsp. /?. Scops guatemalx Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 

 1875, 112, part (Veragua; Costa Rica). 



Scops guatemalss Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, pi. 9, smaller figure 

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

 part (San Jos6 and La Palma de San Jos6, Costa Rica; Calobre, Chitra, Calo- 

 vevora, and Lion Hill, Panama; w. Ecuador?). 



(?)1Scops guatemalss Salvadori and Fbsta, Boll. Mus., Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 

 1900, 33 (Vinces, w. Ecuador; crit.). 



[Scops] guatemalx Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288, part (Panama; w. Ecuador?). 



[Scops brasilianus] d. guatemalx Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 90, 99, 

 part (Chiriqui, Panama; Chitra and Calovevora, Veragua, Panama; Costa 

 Rica). 



Megascops vermiculatus Ridqwat, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 17, Aug. 1, 1887, 

 267 (Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Zblbd6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Q. R., 

 i, 1887, 125 (Costa Rica). — Hasbeouck, Auk, x, 1893, 264 (geog. range).— 

 Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 358 (Divala, Chiriqui, Panama). 



/Scops vermiculams Gurnet, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



Otus vermiculatus Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 475 (La Candelaria, 

 Costa Rica; crit.). 



a Two specimens from Panama. 



6 Seven specimens. 



c I have not seen specimens from either Colombia or Ecuador. There is a specimen 

 in the U. S. National Museum, the alleged locality of which is, according to the 

 original label, "Toyabdj, Quiche," Guatemala; but as the collector from whom the 

 specimen was procured collected both in Guatemala and in Panama, I am convinced 

 that a mistake has been made, probably by transposition of labels, since the specimen 

 agrees strictly in coloration and other characters with examples of the present form 

 from Panama and Costa Rica. 



