BIRDS—STRIGINAE—SCOPS ASIO. 
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as at all strictly geographical, nor not so much so as intimated in our notice of them alluded to 
above. We have, for instance, in this collection the variety Bubo virginianus atlanticus, from 
Bodega, California, (in the collection made hy the party commanded hy Lieutenant W. P. 
Trowbridge, United States army,) and the variety arcticus , from various localities in California 
and New Mexico. The variety atlanticus, from California, we cannot distinguish from the 
common bird of the States on the Atlantic seaboard. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original No. 
Collected by— 
Measurements. 
Remarks. 
.G 
fcfl 
G 
£ 
G 
O) 
« 
be 
G 
£ 
9155 
135 
Dr. Suckley. 
9161 
o 
136 
..Do. 
5854 
o 
535 
9159 
V 
o 
4513 
V 
o 
o 
January, 1853 
V 
8006 
5006 
4613 
March 31, 1855 
4423 
o 
V 
ff 
9154 
o 
8 
No. 98. 
46 
.Do.. 
var. arcticus. 
a 
New Mexico. 
5181 
O 
A 
20.25 
47.04 
14.00 
o 
ticus. 
5180 
o 
Lt. G. K. Warren 
21.25 
51.50 
14.75 
5589 
V 
Au<*. 25, 1856 
299 
W. S. Wood. 
9157 
Novemb’r,1854 
3 
19.00 
48.00 
15.00 
9172 
9158 
37 
4137 
Monterey, Mexico. .. 
18.00 
35.00 
9.25 
ticus. 
8007 
Mexico. 
Sept’r, 1836 
SCOPS, Savigny. 
Savigny, Nat. Hist. Egypt, I, p. 105, (1809.) 
Size small; ear tufts conspicuous. Head large ; facial disc imperfect in front and about the eyes ; bill short, nearly covered 
by projecting feathers ; wings long; tail rather short, and frequently curved inwards ; tarsi rather long, more or less fully 
covered with short feathers; toes long, generally partially covered with hair like feathers ; head large. 
General form short and compact. This genus contains twenty-five to thirty species of small 
owls, inhabiting all parts of the world except Australia. 
SCOPS ASIO, Linn. 
The Mottled Owl; the Screech Owl. 
Strix asio, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 132, (1766.) 
Slrix naevia, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 289, (1788.) 
Bubo striatus, Vieill. Ois. d’Am. Sept. I, p. 54, (1808.) 
Figures. —Catesby’s Nat. Hist. Carolina I, pi. 7 ; Vieill. Ois. d’Am. Sept. I, pi. 21 ; Temm. pi. col. 80 ; Wilson Am. Orn. 
pi- 19, fig. 1, pi. 42, fig. 1 ; Aud. B. of Am. pi. 97 : Oct. ed. I, pi. 40 ; Nat. Hist. New York, Birds, pi. 12, figs. 25, 26. 
Short and compact; ear tufts prominent; tail short ; tarsi rather long. 
Jldult. —Upper parts pale ashy brown with longitudinal lines of brownish black, and mottled irregularly with the same, and 
