48 bubonid.t:. 



13. fig. 5; ScJil. Mus. R-B. Oti, p. 19; Lnclie, Expl. Sci. Alc/i-r. i. 



p. 104 ; Gmdd, B. Gt. Br. i. pi. xxxiii. ; Bettoni, Ucc. nidif. Lomh. 



tav. 17 ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 117 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 45; 



ScM. Revue Accipitr. p. 13. 

 Ephialtes scops, Kei/s. 4" J^li's. Wirh. Eur. p. xxxiii ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 38 (1845) ; Cass. Cat. Stn'r/ida Philad. Mus. p. 10 ; Borrgr. 



Voffclf. Norddeidsclil. p. 65 ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 34. 

 Otiis scops, Schl. Rev. Crit. p. 10. 

 Scops longipennis, Katip, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 223 ; id. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 110. 

 Scops kamtsclaatkensis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543 ; Graij, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 46. 

 Scops minor, Brehm, Naiim. 1855, p. 270. 

 Scops rupestris, Brehm, I. c. p. 270. 

 Scops rufescens, Brehm, I. c. p. 270. 

 Scops pygmtBa, Brehm, I. c. p. 270. 

 Scops vera, Finsch, J.f. O. 1859, p. .381. 

 Ephialtes zorca, Jauh. ^- Barth. Lap. Rich. Orn. p. 78. 

 Scops giu, Newt. Ooth. Wolky. p. 153 ; id. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. 



p. 173; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 178; Irby, B. Gibraltar, p. 58. 



Adult male. Above grey, washed here and there -w-ith orange- or 

 sandy buif ; on the crown the latter colour prevails, all the feathers 

 being mesially streaked with black, and varied with very minute 

 wavy lines of brown ; the ear-tufts externally sandy brown, greyish 

 on the inner webs, and varied with cross markings of white, so that 

 when the tufts are erect there is a continuous line of grey from 

 above the eye on each side of the forehead, the feathers of the latter 

 situated above the eye being greyish ; across the back of the head 

 an indistinct greyish line of feathers, many of them being spotted 

 with white on both webs ; hind neck decidedly greyer than the 

 back, most of the feathers being grejdsh white with very few wavy 

 lines of brown, the dark shaft-streaks also less distinctly indicated ; 

 general aspect of the back grey, but washed with orange-buif on 

 the interscapulary region, and with deep sandy buff on the inner 

 line of the scapulars, all the feathers minutely vermiculated with 

 dark brown, the blackish shaft-streaks also strongly pronounced, 

 and many of the dorsal and scapular feathers varied with indications 

 of whitish bars ; the outer web of the scapulars white or fulvous, 

 broadly tipped with black, and forming a tolerably distinct shoulder- 

 patch ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, the least ones darker, 

 the brown centres of the feathers showing more distinctly, the me- 

 dian and greater series largely spotted with white on the outer web ; 

 primary coverts rather darker than the others, being brown, mottled 

 with dull sandy buff, the outer ones externally notched with fulvous ; 

 quills brown on their concealed inner webs, but greyish externally, 

 harmonizing with the general colour of the bird, being minutely 

 vermiculated like the back; innermost secondaries greyish, with 

 narrow blackish shaft-streaks, the outer ones indistinctly barred 

 with fulvous, the primaries more distinctly, these light bars on the 

 outer web shading into pure white externally, and producing a very 

 marked chequered appearance, all the bars less distinct at the tips 

 of the quills, which are, for the most part, greyish, thickly ver- 



