4. scors. 



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lowish white, those near the edge of the wing durk brown, mottled 

 with sandy rufous, the under wing-coverts ashy brown, fulvous at 

 base, and rcscmbhng the inner Hning of the quills, which are ashy 

 brown, barred with fulvous ; bill horny black ; feet pale ; iris yellow. 

 Total length t) inches, wing G-2o, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-3. 



Leg of <S'. hucospilus. 



Uab. Batchian ; Gilolo. 



a. 5 ad. sk. 



b. S ad. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Juv. sk. 



Batcliiau. 

 JBatchian. 

 Batchian. 

 Gilolo. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. T^-pe of species. 



A. II. Wallace, Esq. [G.j. 



Purchased. 



A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



Ohs. Scops leucospiliis is distinguished by its dark brown plumage 

 and large white shoulder-spots, but especially by its grepsh white 

 cheeks and ear-coverts : the under surface is whiter than in any of 

 the allied races, this being the case even in a nestling specimen. 



Subsp. y. Scops botiruensis. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Ephialtes leucospila (pt.), Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 25 ; JFald. Tr. Z. S. 



viii. p. 39. 

 Scops magicus (pt.), ScJd. Mus. P.-B. Oti, p. 22 ; id. Eeviie Accipitr. 



p. 11. 



Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, aU the feathei's 

 coarsely vermiculated with blackish cross lines and broadly centred 

 vrith black, especiallj' on the head ; on the nape a few feathers 

 barred with white, but not sufficiently to cause even an indication 

 of a band, the hind neck, however, being so broadly and distinctly 

 banded with white on many feathers, and washed with ochraceous 

 buff near their bases, that a tolerably distinct neck- band is seen ; 

 on many of the dorsal feathers appear a few sandy buff bars ; the 

 scapulars distinctly barred across with sandy buff near the tips of 

 the feathers, the outer web ])ure white, with a tolerably broad black 

 tip ; wing-coverts coloured like the back and vermiculated in the 

 same manner, the mechan and greater series broadly barred with 

 white on the outer web, which is nearly entirely white on the ex- 

 ternal coverts belonging to these series ; spurious quiUs extenially 

 notched with white ; primary coverts dark brown, mottled on the 

 outer web with sandy buff vcrmiculations ; quills dark brown, aU 

 mottled with sandy bulf at the tips, the inner web nearly uniform, 



