40 BrBONID^. 



Scops strepitans, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2. p. 54 ; Less. 3Ictn. d'Oni, 



i. p. 118. 

 Bubo strepitans, Cuv. Siyn. An. i. p. 344. 

 yyroium strepitaus, Less. Traite, p. 114. 

 Bubo orientalis, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 100 ; id. Gen. B. i. 



p. 37 ; Cass. Cat. Strir/idce Philad. Mu-s. p. U ; Bp. Ctmsp. i. p. 49 ; 



Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. ^B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 72 ; Sfrickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 21(5 ; Schl. Mm. R-B. Oti, p. 12 ; Gray, Ihtnd-l. B. i. p. 44. 

 Urrua orientalis, Kaup, Contr. Orn, 1852, p. 117 ; id. IV. Z. S, iv. 



p. 243. 

 Bubo orientalis minor, Sckl. Mus. B.-B. Oti, p. 15 ; id. Rccne Accipitr, 



p. 5. 

 Iluhua orientalis, Ilohhic. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 416. 

 Bubo suuiatrauus, Salvad, Ucc. Born. p. 10. 



Young. Above ■white, everywhere banded with light brown, in- 

 clining to rufous on the greater upper wing-coverts ; primary coverts 

 blackish brown, mottled with rufous at extreme tips ; quills dark 

 brown, the primaries with faint indications of lighter brown bands 

 on inner webs, the secondaries rather lighter, barred with rufous 

 buff, the innermost white like the back, and barred with brown in 

 the same manner, the outermost strongly mottled with rufous or 

 irregularly barred with the same, the lower surface of the quills 

 light brown, barred across with ashy white ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts white, barred with brown like the rest of the 

 upper surface ; tail dark brown, broadly tipped with white and 

 barred across with three or four fulvous bauds, by no means equi- 

 distant or of equal breadth, the lower surface of the tail light brown, 

 plainly barred across with white ; sides of face, eyebrow, lores, and 

 throat white ; remainder of under surface white, barred across with 

 light brown. 



Adult female. Above brown, everywhere crossed with numerous 

 zigzag bars of tawny rufous, rather broader than the back, and 

 mottled with tawny buff on the scapulars, some of the latter having 

 the outer webs broadly white, forming a shoulder-stripe ; wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back, the greater and median series mar- 

 gined with white and mottled with the same ; quills dark brown, 

 the primaries indistinctly, but the secondaries very plainlj', barred 

 with light fulvous brown, the cross bars mottled with darker brown, 

 the innermost thickly mottled and vermiculated with tawny buff and 

 white ; tail dark brown, whitish at tip and crossed vnih. six dull 

 tawny bands, of unequal breadth and distance from each other, and 

 often more or less inclining to whitish ; lower surface of wings and 

 tail ashy brown, barred across with whitish, the inner webs of the 

 feathers white at base ; crown of head brown, barred with rufous 

 like the back, the feathers over the eye uniform and forming a 

 distinct eyebrow, continuous with the ear-tufts, which are dark 

 brown, the smaller feathers barred on the inner web with white or 

 Avith rufous ; sides of face and lores dirty white ; all the feathers 

 on the sides of the neck and throat white, barred with brown, the 

 bars somewhat tinged with rufous on the hinder part of the latter ; 

 tmder stirface of body white, with scattered and irregularly shaped 



