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feet yellowish, claws horn-colour. Total length 10 inches, wing G-8, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus 1-55, bare part of latter 0*85. (Mus. Salvia and Godman.) 



" Obs. My description is taken from a specimen obtained at Calobre, in 

 Veragua, by Arce, and kindly lent to me by Mr. Salvin. He has at the 

 same time lent me another specimen, obtained by the same collector in 

 Costa Rica. This latter bird differs in several points from the one 

 described, having more of the general aspect of Scops pennatns of the 

 Himalayas ; it is clear sandy in colour, the black forming regular bars 

 across the plumage, the subterminal one very broad, and giving the 

 appearance of large black spots to the upper surface ; feathers of the 

 crown centred with black, tbe sandy-colored interspaces forming very 

 distinct spots, the ear-tufts being still lighter, and barred across with 

 whitish ; the white spots on the scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer webs 

 of primaries very distinct, as are also the white bars on the lower sur- 

 face, many of them being apparent also on the chest- feathers ; the quills 

 barred with ashy brown on their inner webs, inclining to sandy buff on 

 the secondaries. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 6*8, tail 4, tarsus 1-45, 

 bare part of the latter 0-65." 



The only specimens of this species which I have seen are several 

 borrowed from Mr. Salvin, and returned to him without descriptions 

 having been taken from them. I therefore quote Mr. Sharpens account 

 of the species {I. c). 



B. — Tots only, or icith, at most, the extreme loicer portion of the tarsus, 

 completely naked, 



2. SCOPS BRASILIANUS. 

 a. brasilianus. 



Strix kratOUma, Gmkl., B. N. I, i, 1788,289 (ex Dries., 1,499). 



Strix cltoliba, VWUU, Nouv. Diet, xiv, 1817, 89 (ex Azara, Apunt. 11,218). 



Strix (hcuHHata, Light., Verz. Doubl. 1823,59. 



Strix crurifjera, Srix, Av. Bras. 1, 1825,22, pi. 9. 



iSMX undulata, Srix, t. c. pi. 10. 



? Scops lophotes, Less., Trait/*, 1, 1831, 107. 



Ephialitts aryintina, LicHT., Noniencl. 1854,7. 



ft. atricapil1u8. 



Strix atricapilla, " Natt.", Tkmm., PI. Col. II, 1838, pi. 145. 

 Ephialites watsoni, Cassix, Pr. Phila. Acad. IV, 1849, 123. 



y. ustus. 



Scops usta, Scl., P. Z. S. March 9, 1858, 132. 



6. guatemalcc. 



Scops brasilianm, Bubsp. ft. Scops guatemalce, Siiarpe, Cat. Striges Brit. Mus. 1875, 112, 

 pi. ix. 



e. cassini. 



Scops bra8ilianu8 % e. cassini, Ridgw., MS. 



The above synonymy will serve to show what names I would bring 

 together under the specific head of Scops brasilianus (Gmel.) on account 



