4. scors. 43 



10. Bubo philippinensis. 



Scops philippeusis, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 45. 



Syiiiiiini phUippense, Graij, Cat. Accipitr. lt^4s, p. 105 : lip Cmvj 



1. p. ry2- Strickl. Orn. Sipi. p. 191. ' ^ ' ^ ^■ 



Pseudoptynx philippeut^is,' Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p 117- id Tr 



Z 8. IV. p. '2U ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 144, pi. xxv. li.r' o ' 

 Bubo phihppinensis, Schl. 3Im. P.-£. Oti, p. 14 ; id. iJiormt p 10 



iig. 3 ; 71 all. Ibis, 1868, p. i>5 ; Gray, Ha»d-l. B. i. p. 4.5. ' 



Adidt (type of species). Above tawny rufous, the feathers mesiaUv 

 dark brown, giving a closely striped appearance ; the wiu--covert3 

 rather dar^M- some of the scapulars and greater coverts extcrnaUv 

 creamy buff, forming a kind of longitudinal bar down the latter • 

 entire head and auricular tufts coloured like the back, but somewhat 

 more narrowly streaked ; quills dull brown, tipped with fulvous 

 more plainly on the secondaries, the primaries spotted on the outer 

 and barred on the inner web with pale tawny rufous, the bars more 

 distinct on the secondaries ; tail-feathers duU brown, tipped with 

 fulvous and crossed with a few bars of tawny buff, the middle 

 feathers nearly uniform, with only one bar and indications of a 

 second, the bars gradually increasing in number towards the outer 

 tail-feather, which has five bars on the inner web, and is externaUv 

 tawny buff ; lores white, the anterior bristles black towards tin 

 sides of face tawny, with white shafts ; facial disk tawny with 

 central streaks of brown to the feathers, which are fulvous at base • 

 under surface of body buffy white, longitudinaUy streaked with dark 

 brown centres to the feathers, each mesial streak having a narrow 

 edging of rufous on each side, and decreasing in width towards the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, the tarsal feathers entirely uniform • 

 under wing-coverts bufty white, the outermost longitudinally spotted 

 with dark bro^\^l, the greater series whitish at base, brown at tin 

 resembhng the inner lining of the wing ; bill horn-blue at base' 

 yellow at tip ; feet fleshy brown, claws light horn-colour Total 

 length 21-0 luches, auricular tufts 1-3, culmen 2-3, wino- 14 tail 7 

 tarsus 2-7. o > '> 



Hah. Pliilippine Islands. 



a. Ad. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [P.]. (Type 



of species.) 



4. SCOPS*. 



Scops, Savigny, Descr. de TEyyjite, p. 291 (1809) . S o-iu^^^' 

 Lophostrix, Less. Ctnnpl. Buff. i. p. 201 (1837) s' rvh t f 



Ephialtes, Keys. 4- Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xxxiii (1840)'. ". s'. ^u. "'" 



* The following species is, I believe, distinct ; but I am not -iKIp f,.^r^ „ 

 to place it in the synoptic table. Ho'wever, tb'e foUo^n;isc1^^^t ^n'r^^ 

 by me two years ago Irom the type specimen :— ^ ® 



Scors NOV.E-ZEALAJJDI.E. 



s nov.T-zealandife,^^. Consp. i. p. 47 ; StricU. Or-n. Syn. p 20'^. 

 Mil Mu.<:. P.-n. Oti, p. 27; Finsch. J. f O \xm n •M-vVv' 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 4.i ; Bulla; B. X Z.ut. p.^s/ l^: L^AcS^^, 



