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portions (yellowish green in life);" iris lemon yellow;" toes and 

 naked portion of tarsi flesh color (in life) ." 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 240-247 (243); wing, 177-187.5 

 (183.1); tail, 97-99 (98.8); cuhnen, from cere, 13-14 (13.5).* 



AduU female.— Length (skins), 230-268 (249.3); wing, 177.8-190.5. 

 (183); taU, 92.7-106 (98.3); cuhnen, from cere, 12.5-16 (14.4)."^ 



Costa Rica (Volc&n de Irazti; Volcdn de Turrialba; Azahar de 

 Cartago; La Estrella de Cartago ; La Estrella de Moj6n; San Pedro 

 de Moj6n; El Zarcero de Alajuela; La Carpintera; Santa Ana; Cer- 

 vantes; San Jose; Escazti; CarrUlo), and Panama (Calobre, Veragua; 

 Mt. Pirri, Dari6n) ; Colombia ? 



Bubo nudipes Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 53, pi. 22 ("Greater AntiUes;" 

 coll. VieiUot). 



Scops nudipes Cuviee, Rfegne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 347.— Bclatee, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Loud., 1858, 133.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 (Costa 

 Rica).— Feantzius, Joum. fur Om., 1869, 367 (Costa Rica).— Saivin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 216 (Calobre, Veragua, Panama).— Shaepb, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 121.— Ridqwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 89 

 (monogr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 25 (La 

 Carpintera, Cervantes, El Zarcero de Alajuela, Volcan de Irazd, Santa Ana 

 and San Jos6, Costa Rica; Calobre, Panama; Colombia). 



Slcops] nudipes Sclatbe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 57. 



[Scops] nudipes Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. 



E{j)hialtes'\ nudipes Geay, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 38. 



Acnemis nudipes Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 542. 



Megascops nudipes Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 111 (Costa Rica); 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 125 (El Zarcero de Alajuela). — Chbbrib, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San Jos6, Costa Rica).— Hasbeouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 

 252 (geog. range). 



Otus nudipes Caeeikee, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 476 (Volcan de Turrialba, 

 La Carpintera, La Estrella de Mojon, La Estrella de Cartago, Escazu, and 

 CarrUlo, Costa Rica). 



[Psiloscops] nudipes Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



Strix psilopoda Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 46 (said to be from 

 Santo Domingo and Porto Rico; cites Ois. Am. Sept., pi. 22). 



[Scops] psilopoda Geat, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 491. 



OTUS FLAMMEOLUS (Kaup). 



FLAUUTJLATEI) SCREECH OWL. 



Smallest American species of the genus (wing 128-144 mm.), 

 with very small feet, perfectly naked toes, outermost primary longer 

 than secondaries, short (almost rudimentary) ear-tufts, and brown 

 iris. 



a Jos6 C. Zeled6n, on label. 

 b Four specimens. 



" Five specimens. (Four adult females from Costa Rica have the eulmen 12.5-15.2, 

 averaging 14; one from Mt. Pirri, eastern Panama, has the cuhnen 16 mm.) 



