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lower surface narrower or more delicate. The differences between the 

 two may be tabulated as follows : — 



S. semitorques.* — A well-defined nuchal collar, of mottled pale 

 ochraceous; jugulum immaculate white centrally. Feathers of the 

 lower parts with their transverse peucillings growing fainter toward 

 the middle line, which is un variegated white from the central jugular 

 spot to the anal region. Wing, 6.60-7.25 ; tail, 3.60-3.85 ; culmen, .60; 

 tarsus, 1.25-1.40; middle toe, .80-.90. Hab., Japan. 



S. kennicotti. — No well-defined nuchal band; jugulum closely 

 barred centrally ; feathers of the lower parts with their transverse 

 peucillings not growiug fainter toward the middle line, which is uuva- 

 riegated white only on the abdominal portion ; the medial black streaks 

 to the feathers of the lower surface much broader, and transverse pen- 

 cillings rather coarser. Wing, 6.90-7.30 ; tail, 3.50-4.50 ; culmen, .60- 

 .65 ; tarsus, 1.35-1.45 ; middle toe, .80-.90. Hab., North Pacific coast of 

 North America from Sitka to Washington Territory, and Western Idaho- 



6. floridanus. 

 " Scops asio", Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. II, 1871, 33d. 



Scops asio var. floridanus, Ridgw., Bull. Essex Inst. V, Dec. 1873, 200 (Indian E., Flo- 

 rida) ; in B. B. & R., Hist. X. Am. B. Ill, 1874, 48, 51. 

 Scops asio, subsp. /3. Scops floridanus, Shakpe, Cat. Strig. Brit. Mus. 1875, 118. 

 Scops floridanus, Bouc, Cat. Av. 1876, 91. 



Habitat. — Florida and Lower Georgia. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to var. asio, but much smaller, and the colors 

 deeper. The gray stage very similar to that of var. asio, but the red 

 phase very appreciably different, there being a greater amount of rufous 

 on the lower parts, the breast nearly uniformly colored, and the rufous 

 broken elsewhere into transverse broad bars, connected along tbe shaft. 

 Wing, 5.50-6.00; tail, 2.75-3.10. 



This extreme Southern form is much smaller than the more Northern 

 ones, beiug about the same in size as & maccalli of Guatemala and East- 

 ern Mexico, and S. cassini, also from the latter country. The colors are 

 also darker and richer. 



In the collection of the National Museum are two specimens of this 

 race, one in each phase of plumage. The red one (No. 5,857, Indian 

 River) measures, wing, 5.50; tail, 2.70; culmen, .55; tarsus, 1.05; mid- 

 dle toe, .65. The colors are much darker than those of Northern and 

 Western specimens; the rufous of the neck, all round, shows indistinct, 

 darker, transverse bars ; the black border to the white scapular spots 

 is restricted to the tip of the feathers; the inner webs of the ear-tuft 

 feathers are scarcely paler than the outer; the neck and face are deeper 

 rufous, while on the lower parts this color predominates, and is disposed 

 chiefly in transverse rays ; and the tibiae and tarsi are plain rufous. 

 Only the middle of the abdomen and the anal region are pure white. 



* Otus semitorques, Schleg., Fauna Japon. Aves, 1845, 25, pi. 8. 



Scops semitorques, Boxap., Consp.1,1850,46. — Sharpe, Cat. Strig. Brit. Mus. 1875, 83. 



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