4. scors. 75 



inner web ; bill ycllowisli white ; fcot apparently yellow in lifc' 

 Total length 10 inches, wing 7'3, tail 4, tarsus 1"45. 



Hub. Uouru. 

 «. (S ad. sk. Boiu'u. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. Type of species, 



Ohs. Scops huuruensis is distinguished at once from S. leucoKpHus 

 by its distinctly mottled forehead, which is largely spotted with 

 white, and by its having the sides of the neck also whitish, mottled 

 with black. The legs arc more thickly feathered than in either S. 

 leucospilus or S. mai/icus ; the nape and hind neck are also mottltxl 

 with white, forming two indistinct bands. This cliaractcr goes far 

 to indicate the position of the bird as intermediate between the tS.- 

 nuigicus group and S. Idtia and allies. On the under surface tlie 

 bird is very white, but the broad black centres give it a distinctive 

 appearance. 



Subsp. I. Scops morotensis. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 



Epliialtes leucospilus (pt.), Wall, ttt supra. 

 Scops magicus (pt.), Schl. ut siijva. 



Adult. Above dull brown, varied here and there with a few bars 

 of black and sandy buft', these light bars a little more distinct on the 

 hinder neck, but not sufficiently plain to form a collar ; many of 

 the dorsal feathers centred with black, but more especially those 

 on the centre of the crown, which are black, with tiny lateral spots 

 or notches of sandy rufous ; the bases to the feathers on the sides of 

 the crown pale sandy buff, but scarcely forming lateral stripes, the 

 ear-tufts sandy buff on inner web, barred with brown, the outer 

 web nearly uniform dark brown ; the scapulars externally sandy 

 buff, inclining to ^^'hite, with a few narrow bars of dark brown, 

 some of them barred with white and tipped with black ; wing- 

 coverts darker than the back, the least ones blackish brown, with a 

 few bars and vermiculations of sandy buff, larger and paler on the 

 outer web of the greater series, some of the latter broadly barred 

 with fulvous and tipped with white on the outer web ; primary 

 coverts blackish brown, Math a couple of sandy buff vermiculated 

 bars near the tip ; quills dark brown, almost uniform on the inner 

 web, excepting at the tips, which are closely vermiculated with sandy 

 buff, the outer webs also vermiculated with the same and barred 

 with pale sandy buff, inclining to white on the outer web of the 

 primaries, the innermost secondaries almost entirely sandy buff, 

 paler and more rufous than the back, and mottled with black in tlie 

 centres of the feathers ; upper tail-coverts duller than the back and 

 barred with blackish and sandy brown ; tail dark brown, coarsely 

 vermiculated with sandy buff on the edges of the feathers, which 

 are likewise crossed with about nine bars of pale sandy colour, in- 

 clining to yellowish near the bases of the feathers, and to white on 

 the margins of the outermost ; loral plumes and feathers in front of 

 the eye white, narrowly margined with black at the tip, the shafts 

 of the former black and produced to a great length ; sides of face 



