4. SCOPS. 



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cross lines, those near the outer edge of the wing blackish, slightly 

 mottled with fulvous, the lower series ashy brown, fulvous at base, 

 like the inner lining of the (luiUs, which is ashy brown, notched on 

 the outer and barred on the inner web with fulvous ; bill horn- 

 colour, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; feet apparently yellow 

 in life. Total length (3-7 inches, wing 5-1, tail 2-5 ; tarsus 0-85, the 

 hinder aspect entirely bare, feathered only for 0-45 in front, the 

 bare part being 0-4 inch in length. 



Hah. India. 

 a. Ad. St. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.J. Type of species. 



Oh$. I have given a very careful description and a figure of this 

 obscure species, as hitherto it has not been correctly identified by 

 Indian naturalists. Indeed its Indian habitat is by no means cer- 

 tain, as some of Mr. Iteeves's birds came from Malacca and China, 

 and it is just possible that it may have had a wrong locality affixed. 

 Were it not for the exact correspondence of the feathering on both 

 tarsi, the species looks like Scops malai/anus with its tarsal feathers 

 rubbed off". The following cut exhibits the characters of the leg, 

 and will distinguish the species in future. 



Leg of Scops gymnopodus, nat. size. 



4. Scops sunia. 



Scops sunia, Ilodqs. As. Research, xix. p. 175; id. in Graifs Znol. 



Misc. p. 82 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 182 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38 ; 



Jerd. III. Lid. Zool. pi. xli. ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 48 ; Bp. Biv. ct Mag. 



de Zool. 1854, p. 543 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 45 ; Schl. Revue 



Acct/iitr. p. 14. 

 Ephialte? sunia, Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^r. Nepal, coll. Hodgs. p. 51 ; 



Cass. Cat. Sfriqidee, p. 10 ; Horsf. dc Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. 



i. p. 70; Hold'siD. P. Z. S. 1872,'p. 418. 

 Ephialtes bakkamsena, Bhjth, Ibis, 1866, p. 255; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, 



p. 347. 

 Scops pennatus, Gould, B. Asia, part 22 (pt.) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs 



Lid. B. i. p. 65. 

 Ephialtes pennatus, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 386 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, 



p. 347. 



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