PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Ill 



in color. The transverse lines on the under surface of the body are 

 better defined and more numerous." 



In the above description, those characters which fit "enano", and not 

 " trichopsis I have taken the liberty to italicize. 



In the " Birds of North America" (p. 53), a rufous specimen is de- 

 scribed, which renders it still more certain that Cassin's Scops McCallii 

 is the form which we have hitherto called u enano". The specimen 

 there mentioned as in the National Museum from Florida is not this 

 form, but has since been made the type of S. asio var. floridanus.* 





Boston Soc. 



Gray ad. 





(?) 



5.60 



3. 30 



.55 



1.05 



.70 





S. <fc G 



Gray ad. 



San Bernardo, Guatemala. Oct 



— , 1862 



5. 70 



3. 10 



.50 



L 15 



.75 





...do 



Gray ad. 



V. de Fuego, Guatemala,.! Jan. 



— , 1874 



5.90 



3. 35 



.50 



1. 12 







...do 



Enf. ad. 



Dueiias. Guatemala .. 



— , 1861 



5. 85 



3. 50 



.50 



1.05 



.72 





...do 



Gray jo v. 



Cot an, Vera Paz 



(?) 



5.60 



3.25 



.45 



1. 00 



.70 





G.N.L 



Gray ad. 



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.... 







y. kennicottii. 



? Scops asio, Coop. & Suckl., Pacific R. R. Rep. XII, ii, 1860, 155 (Washington Terr.).— 

 Lord, Naturalist in Vancouver L, II, 1866, 292. 



Scops kennicottii, Elliot, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, 69; Illustr. Birds Am. 1869, p. 



xxvii, pi. 11 (Sitka, Alaska ; Morch, 1866).— Dall & Baxxist., Tr. Chicago 

 Acad. I, ii, 1869, 273 (do.).— Baird, id. 311, pi. xxvii (do.).— Gray, Hand-1. 1, 

 1869, 47, no. 492.— FrxscH, Abh. Nat. Brem. Ill, 1872, 28 (Alaska).— Bouc, Cat. 

 Av. 1876, 91. 



Scops asio var. kennicotti, Ridgw. in Coues' Key, 1872, 203. — Coues, Check List, 

 1873, 65, no. 318 a. — B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., Ill, 1874, 48, 53 ("from Columbia 

 River northward; Idaho"). 



Scops asio, b. kennicottii, Coues, Birds N. W. 1874, 303. 



Scops asio, subsp. a. Scops kennicotti, Sharpe, Cat. Strig. Brit. Mus. 1875, 117 (Van- 

 couver I. ; u w. side Rocky Mts"). 

 KennicotVs Owl, Auct., I. c. 



Habitat. — The Xorthwest coast district, from Oregon to Sitka ; Idaho ; 

 Vancouver 'Island. (Sharpe) ; British Columbia (Sharpe). 



Diagnosis.— Adult (3, 59,847, Sitka, Alaska, March, 1866; Ferd. 

 Bischolf. Elliot's type) : — Above umber-b'own, with a slightly reddish 

 cast ; feathers confusedly mottled transversely with dusky, and showing 

 rounded spots of rufous, most conspicuous on the nape ; each feather 

 with a conspicuous mesial, broad, ragged stripe of black, these stripes 

 most conspicuous on the forehead and scapulars; outer webs of scapu- 

 lars light rufous, bordered terminally with black. Wings of a more 

 grayish cast than the back, but similarly variegated ; lower feathers of 

 the middle and secondary wing-coverts each with a large, oval, pale 

 rufous spot, covering most of the lower web. Secondaries crossed by 

 six narrow, obscure bands of pale rufous ; primaries with seven, some- 

 what rounded, quadrate spots of the same on the outer webs, forming 



* Since the above -was put in type, I have seen, through the courtesy of Dr. E. Coues, 

 a series of this species collected in Southern Texas (by Mr. G. B. Sennett), and conse- 

 quently the true S. maccalli. They agree exactly with typical "S. enano", which fact 

 therefore settles the question of the proper name of this form. 



