4. SCOPS. 47 



under surface not streaked, ouly spotted with 

 black ; veriuiculations nearly or quite obsolete 

 both above and below ; centre tail-feathers 

 nearly uniform ; upper surface marked with 

 arrow-shaped spots of butt' or white, 

 e'. Size vei-y large : wing 7'15 inches ; sides of 

 neclf with a broad crescentic band of black, 



also crossing- the throat sai/itlatits, p. 98. 



d'. Size small ; wing not exceeding 5"6 inches ; 



some of the rurt-feathers tipped with black, 



but not enough to form a band. 



c". Under surface very strongly vermiculated 



with fine zigzag lines of blackish ; upper 



surface of a rutous chocolate tint, spotted 



with rufous ochre ; frontal band vot very 



broad ". halli, p. 100. 



d". Ilnder surface without vermiculations, or 



at most with a very faint trace ; upper 



surface sandy butf in tint, spotted with 



fulvous or white. 



e'". Spots and bars on upper surface fulvous, 



as also frontal band ; scapular- and 



wing-spots fulvous riifesccns, p. 102. 



f". Spots and bars on upper surface creamy 

 white, as well as the frontal band, wing- 

 spots, and scapular spots tcterorJn/ncha, 



p. 103. 



1. Scops giu. 



Le Petit Due, Briss. Oni. i. p. 495, pi. xxxvii. fig. 1 ; Huff] PI. E)d. 



i. pi. 436. 

 Strix scops, Linn. S. N. i. p. 132 ; Meyer ^ Wolf, Vog. DeutacM. 



pi. 10, p. 76; Temm. Man. d'Oni. i. p. 103 ; Kaum. Voff. Deutschl. 



1. p. 466, pi. 43. fig. 3 ; Roiix, Orn. Prov. i. p. 73, pi. 48 ; Werner, 



Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 42 ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. iii. p. 110 ; Yarr. 



Brit. B. i. p. 113; Sundev. Si: Foyl. p. 187. 

 Strix giu. Scop. Ann. i. p. 19 ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 56. 

 Strix zorca, Gni. S. N. i. p. 289 (ex Cetti). 

 Strix carnioliaca, G-'>h. «S'. N. i. p. 290 (e.v Scop.). 

 Strix pulchella, Gm. S. N. i. p. 290. 

 Scops ephialtes, Saviqn. Descr. E(/>/ptc, p. 291 ; Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 222; id. Contr. Orn. 1852, p.'ilO. 

 lUibo scops, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 549 ; Jenyns, 3Ian, Brit. Vertebr. 



p. 91. 

 Scops asio, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 51. 

 Scops aldrovandi, Flem. Brit. An. p. 57 ; Selbt/, III. Brit. Orn. i. 



p. 92, pi. 22; Goidd, B. Eur. i. pi. 41 ; Bp.' Comp. List B. Bur. 



and N. Am. p. ; Macgill. Brit. B. iii. p. 422 ; Heioits. Eqqs Br. 



B. i. p. 54, pi. xix. fig. 1 ; Begl. H; Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 142. 

 Scops carnioliaca, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 120, 

 Scops europpeus, Less. Traite, p. 106. 

 Scops senegalensis, Sii\ Classif. B. ii. p. 217; id. B. W. Afr. i. 



p. 127; Cass. Cat. Striqidd- P/iilad. 3Ius. p. 10; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 



1S52, p. 142 ; Bp. Per', et 3Iag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543 ; Strickl. Orn. 



Syn. p. 199; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 20; id. J. f. O. 1801, p. 101. 

 Scops zorca, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 217 ; Bp. Per. et Mat/, de Zool. 



1854, p. 543; .Sy;-/rA/. ()rn. Si/n. p. 197; Fritsch, Viig.' Eur. t.ab. 



