104 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



long, slender, hair-like bristles, forming a conspicuous ruff round the face, 

 the anterior side concave. Gray phase {adult) : — Above brown, thickly 

 spotted with black, the black prevailing on the pileum; outer webs of 

 scapulars white, bordered terminally with black. Beneath whitish, the 

 feathers marked with transverse bars and mesial stripes of black, the 

 white of opposite webs having the form of roundish or oblong spots. 

 Rufous phase {adult): — Above cinnamon-rufous, all the feathers (except 

 upper tail-coverts) with wide and distinct mesial streaks of black. Be- 

 neath white, the feathers wit'j shaft-streaks of black and wide cross- 

 bars of rufous having black borders. 



Remarks. — This very distinct species is apparently most nearly 

 related to & flammeolus, with which it agrees in the extreme weakuess 

 of the feet. It differs, however, from that form in being of much stouter 

 build, more u fluffy 7 ' plumage, the head appearing larger and the body 

 stouter in consequence of the greater length and looseness of the feathers. 

 The plumage also is quite different, the markings being altogether coarser. 

 The differences between the two have been more precisely expressed on 

 a preceding page. From & cassini, which it sometimes very closely 

 resembles in colors, it may be immediately distinguished by its much 

 weaker feet and different proportions, as follows :* — 



Scops barbarus. — Wing, 5.25-5.G0 ; tail, 3.10 ; tarsus, 1.00-1.05 ; 

 middle toe, .70-.75. Hab., Highlands of Guatemala. 



Scops cassini.— Wing, 5.80-6.10 ; tail, 3.20-3.50 ; tarsus, 1.20 ; mid- 

 dle toe, .80. Hab., Eastern Mexico (Vera Cruz, etc.). 



42776 



U. S. 



Ad. 



Central Guatemala 



(?) 



5. 60 



3. 10 



.45 



1. 00 



.75 





S. &.G. 



Ad. gr. 



Vera Paz, Guatemala — 



, 1860 



5.60 



3. 10 



.4:, 



L 00 



• 70. [Type ] 





S. & (i. 



Ad. r. 



Sta. Barbara, Guatemala. 



Apr.— ,1660 



5. 35 



3.10 



.45 



1.00 



.70. [Type.] 



4. scops flammeolus. 



"Strix Jlammeola, Licht., MS., in Mus. Berol., unde." 

 Ephialites Jlammeola, LlCHT., Nom. 1854, 7. 



Megascops Jlammeola, Kaup, Traus. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV, 1859, 226. 

 Scops Jlammeola, Scl., P. Z. S. 1868, 96.— Schleg., Mue. P.-B. Oti, 1862, 27; Rev. Acc. 

 1873, 14,-Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1868, 07 ; Ex. Orn. VII, July, 1868, 99, pi. 1. ; 

 Nom. Neotr. 1873, 117 {Mexico; Guatemala).— Gkay, Iland-1. I, 1870, 47.— El- 

 liot, Illustr. Auj. B. I, 1869, pi. xxviii. — Coues, Key, 1872, 203 ; Check List, 

 1873, 65, No. 319.— Ridgw., in B. B. &. R. Hist. N. Am. B. Ill, 1874, 58, fig. 

 {Guatemala; Mexico; Sierra Nevada, n. to Ft. Crook, Cat, where breeding); 

 Field & Forest, June, 1877, 210 {Boulder Co., Col.; March.— "Iris umber- 

 brown"!); Orn. 40th Par. 1877, 335, in text {Nevada, Cal. f). — Henshaw, Orn. 

 Wheeler's Exp. 1874, 135 (30 rn. south of Apache, Ariz. ; Sept. 11).— Shakpe, 

 Cat. Strig. Brit. Mus. 1875, 105 (I)ueriav, Guat.; W. Mexico; Valley of Mexico). — 

 Bouc, Cat. Av. 1876, 91 (Mexico). 



Flammulated Owl, Coues, I. c. 



Feilner's Owl, B. B. &. R., I. c. 



Habitat. — Highlands of Guatemala and Mexico, north to latitude 40° 

 in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains of the United States. 



* Scops flammeolus.— Wing, 5.10-5.60 ; tall, 2.60-3.00 ; tarsus, .90-1.00 ; middle toe, 

 .60-68.— Hab., Highlands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Western United States north to 

 about 40°. 



