4. SCOPS. f)3 



says that he has seen six exami)les from Ahmeduuggur all similar 

 in coloration), I keep /S'cops bnieii as a race of S. giu ; but it is im- 

 possible to overlook the fact that its colouring is quite peculiar, none 

 of the other subspecies being any thing like it in the uniformity 

 of its general colouring, which I have described as ochraceous grey. 



2. Scops spilocephalus. 



Scops pennata, IlncJf/s. J. A. .S'. B. vi. p. 3G9 (pa7-tim). 



Ephialtes spilocephalus, lilijth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 8. 



Pliodilus uepaleusis, Gray, Haiul-l. B. i. p. 53. 



Ephialtes gyainopodus, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 390 : Jerd. Ibis 



1871, p. 347. 

 Scops spilocephala, Htmie, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. i. p. G6. 



AduU (type of species). Above sandy brown, thickly vermiculated 

 with wavy cross lines of blackish, disappearing to a great extent on 

 the lower scapulars, and still more on the innermost secondaries, 

 which are consequently nearly uniform sandy or fawn-colour ; the 

 outer scapulars fulvous or butfy white, with a broad terminal bar of 

 blackish bro-rni ; round the hind neck a tolerably distinct collaret, 

 most of the feathers having a broad subterminal bar of huffy white ; 

 head sandy brown, lighter than the back, the wavy black cross lines 

 very distinct, nearly all the feathers with a broad subterminal spot 

 or bar of huffy white, giving the crown a distinctly spotted appear- 

 ance ; wing- coverts rather deeper sandy brown than the back, 

 coarsely vermiculated with wavy lines of blackish, the median series 

 with ovate spots of bufFy wliite on some of their outer webs, the 

 spurious quills also slightly notclied externally with huffy white ; 

 primary coverts deep sandy rufous, barred with blackish brown, and 

 minutely vermiculated with lines of the same towards the tips ; 

 quills brown, indistinctly barred with lighter brown on the inner 

 webs, increasing in distinctness towards the tips, which are sandy- 

 coloured, vermiculated with lines of blackish ; the outer webs of the 

 quiUs sandy or fawn-coloured, more or less distinctly barred with 

 blackish, the interspaces on the outer webs of the primaries inclining 

 to white, and giving a chequered appearance to the external aspect 

 of the wing ; rump and upper taU-covcrts deep sandy brown like the 

 back, and vermiculated with blackish lines in the same manner, as 

 well as crossed with many fulvescent bars, producing a somewhat 

 spotted appearance ; tail f;iwn-coloured, crossed with eight or nine 

 bars of blackish brown, of which about eight can be traced on the 

 centre feathers, and remains of nine on the exterior ones, all the bars 

 being distinct near the base, but less strongly characterized towards 

 the tip ; forehead whitish, the plumes mesially streaked and ter- 

 minally spotted with blackish brown ; lores whitish, the feathers 

 brownish at tip, the shafts develoiied into blackish hair-hke bristles ; 

 a broad eyebrow of huffy white narrowly tipped with brown ; ear- 

 coverts sandy buff, barred with blackish, the hinder ones more 

 fulvescent ; behind the ear-coverts an indistinct ruff of buffy white 

 plumes, narrowly barred and broadly tipped \vith deep brown ; chin 



