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Scops harbarus there are no traces of the strongly marked black shaft-spots^ which ornament the 

 under plumage of Scops flammeola, but the whole surface is thickly strewn with white ocellations 

 upon a dark brown ground. The same character of markings also pervades the face, hinder-neck, 

 and scapularies. The fourth and fifth primaries are equal and longest in the present species, 

 the sixth equalling the third. The first is 1*5 in. shorter than the fourth and fifth. The first 

 three primaries do not appear to be so deeply excised as in the allied species. 



The front figure in our plate represents what we believe to be the normal plumage of this 

 species, while the hinder figure represents the hepatic form so frequently met with in this family 

 of birds. Both the specimens figured are from Vera Paz, and are now in Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman's collection. The only other individual we have seen, which is in the collection of the 

 Smithsonian Institution (No. 42,770), was also obtained in Vera Paz by Mr. Henry Hague of 

 San Geronimo. This bird is intermediate in colour between the two we have figured. 



Since we treated of this group of Owls in the " Proceedings" of the Zoological Society we 

 have seen the type-specimens of S. portoricensis in the Paris Museum, but have been unable to 

 distinguish it from S. brasilianus. S. lophotes of Lesson, of which we have also seen the type 

 is probably only a paler form of the same bird. There remain, therefore, only seven 

 well-marked species of this genus in America, namely :-— 



a. Digitis setosis. 



(1) 8. asio (Linn.) Baird's B. N. A. p. 51, ex America septentr. universa. 



(2) 8. kennicolti, Elliot, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1S67, p. 99, ex America bor. occ. 



(3) 8. trichopsis, "Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 276. 8. maccalli, Cassin. Ex. Texas, Mexico, et Guatemala. 



b. Digitis omnino nudis. 

 (1) S.Jiammeola, ex California Mexico et Guatemala. 



(5) 8. harbarus, ex Guatemala. 



(6) 8. brasilianus, (Gm.). S. choliba, Vieill. 8. crucigera, Spix. 8. portoricensis, Less. 8. ustus, Sclater. 

 8. atricapilla, Temm. Ex America meridionali tropica. 



c. Digitis pum tarsorum dimidio basali nudis. 



(7) 8. nudipes ( Vieill.) . Bubo nudipes, Vieill. Ois. de l'Am, Sept. i. p. 53, t. 22. EphiaUes nudipes, Cassin, 

 List of Owls. Ex Costa liica (Arce): Bogota (Cassin). 



July, 18GS. 



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