BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 



735 



under parts mucli darker (the white sometimes wholly replaced by 

 ochraceous), the brown vermiculations heavier or denser, the whole 

 chest (sometimes breast also) occasionally brown or tawny-brown 

 with darker vermiculations ; legs heavily mottled with brown. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 372-400 (384); wing, 303-310 

 (307.5); tail, 175-186.5 (179.2); culmen, from cere, 18-20 (18.7)." 



Aduli female.— Length (skins), 365-413 (408); wing, 298-320 

 (306.6); taU, 169.5-182.5 (176.5); culmen, from cere, 18-20 (19).'" 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirad6r), Oaxaca (Villa 

 Alta; Cacoprieto) and Chiapas (San Bartolom6) and southward, 

 through Guatemala (Cob&n; Vera Paz; Escuintla; San Pedro Mar- 

 tir) and Costa Rica (Rio SIcsola, Talamanca; El Hogto; San Carlos; 

 Santa Ana; San Jos6; Escazl; Santo Domingo de San Mateo; 

 Lagarto; Pozo Aztil de Pirrls ; Volc&n de Irazd) to Panamfi, (Boquete, 

 Divala, and Boquer6n, ChiriquI; Santa F^, Bugaba, and Vival&, 

 Ver&gua; Natfi,, CoclS; Cana, Dari6n). 



Scops cristata . . . var. Strickland, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1848, 60-7, pi. 10 

 (Coban, Guatemala; crit.). 



LopJiostrix stricklandi SoLATEBand Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 221 (Vera Paz, Guatemala; 

 coll. H. Strickland).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 158 (Santa Fe, 

 Veragua, Panama); 1870, 216 (Bugaba, Veragua); Ibis, 1874, 99 (Escuintla, 

 Guatemala). — Lavbbnce, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 (San Jose, Costa 

 Kica). — ^Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 367 (Costa Rica). — Botjgard, 

 Liste Ois. r6col. Guat., 1878, 22 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 

 45 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — ^Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 125 (San Jose and Santa Ana, Costa Rica). — Chebeie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 

 (San Jose); Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 50 (Lagarto, s. v. Costa Rica).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ajn., Aves, iii, 1897, 14 (Villa Alta and 



" Six specimens. 



6 Eight specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Panama 



Two adult males from Costa Eica 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from Panama 



Four adult females from CostaEica 



One adult female from Chiapas (San Bartolome) 



SEX NOT DETEKMIKED. 



One adult from w. Panama (Veragua) 



One adult from Costa Eica 



One adult from Vera Cruz (Mirador) 



306.5 

 309.5 



307.3 



307 



303 



287 

 312 

 303 



180.4 

 176.7 



173.S 

 178.8 

 178.5 



171 

 173 

 180 



18.7 

 18.7 



18.7 



19 



20 



18 

 20 

 19 



Great differences in coloration are seen in the series examined; but without a 

 much larger number of specimens, and especially in the absence of the type specimen 

 or topotypes, it would be useless to conclude whether these variations represent 

 simply individual or phase differences or are geographical. 



