2. SCOTOPELIA. 11 



b Ad. St. Zambesi. Dr. Kirk 



c. Juv. St. Zambesi. Dr. Kirk 



m. 



2. Scotopelia ussheri. 



Scotopelia ussheri, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, pj). 101, 417, pi. xii. ; Ussher, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 46. 



Adult. Above bright bay, a few of the feathers dusky brown 

 towards the tips, the head and hind neck browner than the back, as 

 also the sides of the face ; wing-coverts bay, like the back, the 

 least ones very bright, the median and greater series paler and 

 more fiilvescent, somewhat shaded with dusky brown towards the 

 tips, and faintly barred with darker brown ; quiUs bay, rather more 

 fulvous than the back, very biuadly barred with dark brown on 

 inner web, extending on the outer one, but more narrowly and 

 faintly, under surface much paler than the upper, the broad bars 

 very distinct ; tail dusky fulvous, crossed vrith five dark brown bars, 

 not of equal breadth nor strictly conterminal ; under surface of 

 body pale fawn-colour, the throat paler and more fulvous, the entire 

 breast-feathers streaked down the centre with dark brown, inclining 

 to rufous on either side of the shaft-streak ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts not streaked ; under wing-coverts also uniform fawn-colour 

 with no streaks, the lower series brownish at tip, resembling the 

 wing-lining ; cere yellow ; bill horn-browTi, yellowish green at junc- 

 tion with cere ; feet yellow, claws yellowish horn-colour. Total 

 length 20-5 inches, culmen 1-G5, wing 13*6, tail 7*8, tarsus 2-35. 



Ilab. W. Africa : forests of Denkera, in the interior of Fantee. 



a. Ad, sk. Denkera {Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 



3. Scotopelia bouvieri. (Plate I.) 



Scotopelia bouvieri, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 261. 



Adult. Above dusky brown, with blackish shaft-lines, plainly 

 indicated on the head and hind neck : all the feathers of the upper 

 surface mottled with dull tawny vermiculations, these predominating 

 on the head, which has consequently a paler appearance than the 

 back ; scapulars externally fulvous, forming a tolerably distinct 

 shoulder-patch ; least wing-coverts blacker than the back, the tawny 

 vermiculations not so distinct on this series, but very plain on the 

 median and greater series, which are consequently much more tawny 

 on the outer web and at the tip, the latter having also an indication 

 of a whitish spot ; primary coverts blackish, only slightly vermicu- 

 lated with tawny ; quills blackish, tipped narrowly with fulvous, 

 and barred with tawny in about equal proportions to the black, the 

 tawny bars not conterminous on the primaries, being much more 

 dingy and shaded with blackish on the inner webs, the outer webs 

 paler and clearer, the intermediate blackish markings very indistinct, 

 and dissolving into obscure vermiculations, the secondaries much 

 more blackish in tint and resembling the back, the tawny bands 



