64 BCBONID.E. 



buffj- white ; under surface light sandy buff, with a few wavy lines 

 and minute verniiculations of blackish, most of the feathers barred 

 with white, these white bars margined with a conspicuous irregular 

 spot or bar of blackisli ; thighs bright chestnut, shading off into buff 

 on the tarsi ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, with a broad lon- 

 gitudinal patch of dark-brown feathers near the edge of the wing, 

 which is whitish, the lower series sepia-brown, yellowish white at 

 base, thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are 

 brown below, barred with fulvous on the inner web ; bill yellowish ; 

 feet fleshy brown ; iris yellow. Total length 9 inches, wing 5'75, 

 tail 3-1, tarsus 1-25. 



Obs. The above specimen, which I believe to be one of those 

 figured by Mr. Hodgson as S. 2yen)tati(s (vide suj^rd), is in bad con- 

 dition ; but the description agrees in the main with a better-pre- 

 served Hodgsonian skin, the type of Phodihis nqmle)isis. Gray. 

 The Cambridge Museum likewise contains a specimen fromKumaon, 

 procured by Captain Boys, which is in better preservation, and 

 shows the centre of the abdomen to be very conspicuously white. 



Hab. Himalaya Mountains. 



a. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. St. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. Type 



of PhrxUlm nepalensis. 

 e. Ad. sk. India (Jerdun). J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Scops hambroecki. 



Scops japonicus, Swinh. Ibis, 18G5, p. 348, et Ibis, 1866, p. 307. 

 Ephialtes hambroecki, Sivinh. Ann. N. H. (4) vi. p. 153. 

 Lempijius hambroecki, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 344. 



Adult male (type of species). Above rufous chocolate, very finely 

 vermiculated with black, these markings rather coarser near the 

 ends of the feathers, where they sometimes form a subterminal spot ; 

 the head rather darker than the back, the black centres to the 

 feathers broader; round the hind neck a very distinct white collar, 

 the feathers being tipped with dusky black, and having a broad sub- 

 tei-minal band of white ; forehead distinctly huffy white, slightly 

 spotted with brown, extending backwards so as to form an eyebrow 

 as far as the inner web of the ear-tufts, the outer aspect of the 

 latter being sandy rufous with blackish cross lines ; on the occiput 

 a few light rufous spots, scarcely forming a band ; on the nape, 

 however, a distinct indication of a band, the feathers being light 

 fulvous ; scapulars externally white, tipped with blackish, and form- 

 ing a distinct shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts a little darker than the 

 back, the blackish centres larger and the vermiculations coarser, the 

 greater series having indications of a whitish spot, the bastard wing 

 externally notched with huffy white ; primary coverts rufous-choco- 

 late, with irregular cross bars of blackish ; quiUs rufesccnt, barred 

 with dusky blackish, the inner webs entirely blackish brown, but 

 the outer webs barred with this colour, each bar more or less inclining 

 to rufous on the outer margin, the interspaces on the primaries buffv 



