56 BCBONIDJE. 



Reeves. The same subspecies is found in Camboja, and even extends 

 to Ney^aul, specimens from both these localities being in the British 

 Museum. 



The tj'pical specimen is said to be from China, ■whence also I have 

 seen two other specimens in ilr. Swinhoc's collection, which I am 

 inclined to refer to S. sticfoiwtas. One from Amoy (S. hnlhamrena, 

 8winhoe. Ibis, IS'JO, p. 47) is certainly the same ; and another from 

 Chefoo (.S'. snnia, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 433) must also be the 

 same, I think, although there is rather more white on the eyebrow 

 and under surface of the body, and the ear-coverts are paler grey 

 than in the typical bird. The fulvous collar, however, is present, 

 and the bars on the dorsal plumage are very distinct. I give 

 measurements of the other specimens examined by me : — 



Total ^y.^ rrgjj_ Tarsus, 

 length. ." 



in. in. in. in. 



a. (^ ad. Chefoo (Swinhoe) 7-5 f)-7o 2-P5 1 05 



b. Ad. Amoy (Siciiifine) 7-5 5-5 2v 1 



c. Ad. Camboja (Moiihnt) 8 5-75 2-8 1-1 



d. Ad. Xepaul {Hodgson) 8 5o5 28 095 



Hab. China, ranging westwai-ds to Siam and the eastern Hima- 

 layas. 



a. Ad. St. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Camboja. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Xepaui. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. c. Scops japonicus. 



Otus scops japonicus, Schl. Faun. Japan. Aves, p. 27, pi. 9. 

 Scops japonicus, £p. Sev. et Mck/. de Zool. 1854, p. 543; Grat/, 

 Hand-l B. i. p. 4-5. 



Adnlt. Above brown, all the feathers coarsely vermiculated with 

 zigzag black lines, the interspaces often fulvescent and producing a 

 strongly mottled appearance, the centres of the feathers being 

 blackish ; scapulars coloured like the back, the outermost white or 

 slightly washed with buff, and mottled with some coarsely marked 

 spots of black near the tip, forming an ill-defiued terminal bar ; head 

 rather darker than the back, and washed with dull orange-buff, most 

 of the feathers being laterally spotted -R-ith this colour and con- 

 spicuously black in the centre ; on the nape a faintly indicated 

 greyish band, some of the feathers being subterminally barred with 

 white, the hind neck darker, but the interscapulary region varied 

 with orange-buff bases to the feathers, slightly washed with grey, 

 the plumes also much mottled with spots of white ; ear-tufts 1-1 inch 

 long, orange-buff for the greater part of the inner web and at the 

 base, the outer webs obscured with blackish mottlings and zigzag 

 lines ; wing-coverts coloured and vermiculated exactly like the back, 

 the greater series shaded with grey, but the rest of the coverts 

 rather more dusky than the back, the spurious quills externally 

 barred but not distinctly notched with sandy rufous ; primary coverts 



