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Show 18G8.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON N E W BIRDS. 57 mage. In Scops fiammeola there are strongly marked longitudinal bars on the under surface, as in Scops asio and its allies. Fig. B. Fig. 1. Left foot of Scops fiammeola. 2. Left foot of S. barbarus. 3. Left foot of S. nudipes. W e are acquainted with seven well-marked species of this genus in America, namely :- a. Digitis setosis. (1) S. asio (Linn.): Baird's B. N . A. p. 51, ex America septentr. universa. (2) S. kennicotti, Baird, sp. nov., ex America bor.-occ* (3) S. trichopsis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 276. $. macalli, Cassin. Ex Texas, Mexico, et Guatemala. b. Digitis omnino nudis. (4) S. fiammeola, Kp., ex Mexico. (5) S. barbarus, ex Guatemala. (6) 8. brasilianus (Gm.). Strix choliba, Vieill. Strix crucigera, Spix. Ex America meridionali tropica. c. Digitis cum tarsorum dimidio basali nudis. (7) S. nudipes (Vieill.). Bubo nudipes, Vieill. Ois. de 1'Am. Sept. i. p. 53, t. 22. Ephialtes nudipes, Cassin, List of Owls. Ex Costa Rica (Arce'); Bogota (Cassin). * W e have lately had an opportunity of examining the type specimen of this new species, which has been sent to this country to be figured for Mr. Elliot's work on the ' Birds of North America,' now in progress. It is similar in form to S. asio, but is of larger size and more distinctly marked. |
