70 T!ri!ONID.E. 



niul ear-covcrts nifous saiulj-, iiidistiuctly barred across with blackish, 

 the hindermost tipped with black and merging in the rutf which 

 rnns down the sides of the head, the feathers composing which are 

 yellowish tipped ■wdth black, becoming paler and more fulvescent on 

 the throat, more narrowly tipped and scantily barred with black, 

 the ahaft-streaks being also of the latter colour ; sides of neck exactly 

 resembHng the back, and descending somewhat on to the sides of the 

 chest, which arc plainly barred with sandy buff ; the rest of the 

 under surface sandy rufous, the feathers widely vermiculated with 

 zigzag blackish lines, the centres to the chest-feathers very broadly 

 black, with a few lateral bars of sandy buff or white ; the abdominal 

 plumes not so broadly streaked down the centre with black, but 

 much more broadly notched and barred with white, which, however, 

 never prevails to any great extent anywhere on the under surface, 

 though the lower flanks are barred with white and sandy buff"; 

 under tail-coverts white, tinged with sand-colour near the tip, which 

 has also some remains of blackish shaft-streaks ; leg-feathers ochra- 

 ceaus, the tibial plumes barred and the tarsus streaked with dark 

 brown ; imder wing-coverts yellowish white, as also the edge of the 

 wing, the feathers adjoining the latter dark brown, mottled with 

 sandy rufous, the lower series ashy brown, yellowish white at base, 

 resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are ashy brown 

 below, barred with yellowish white on the inner web. Total length 

 10-5 inches, wing 6-6, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-35. 

 Hah. Morty Island (Morotai). 



a. Ad. sk. Morty Island. A. R. ^^^allace, Esq. [C.J. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Molucca Islands. Purchased. 

 d. Ad. sk, Molucca Islands. Purchased. 



Ohs. This is a very well-characterized Scops Owl. It is strictly 

 of the same form and general coloration as S. leucospilus, but is a 

 darker-looking bird, and is at once recognizable from that race by 

 its buff-cyloured ruff and ear-coverts, in these characters resembling 

 true /S. matjkus. It is further like the latter bird in its rufescent 

 under surface, on which there are very few white bars. 



Subsp. e. Scops menadensis. (Plate YIII. fig. 2.) 



Scops menadensis, Quoy et Gaiin. Voy. de VAstr. i. p. 170, pi. 2. 



fig. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 47 ; Kaiip, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 112 ; Strickl. 



Orn. Syn. p. 202 : fSchl. Mus. P.-B. Oti, p. 20 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. 



i. p. 46 ; <S'r^/. Revue Accipitr. p. 12. 

 Ephialtes menadensis, Gray, Gen. B, i. p. 38 ; Wall. Ibis, 1808, p. 25 ; 



Wuhl. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 40. 

 Pisorhina menadensis, Kmip, Isis, 1848, p. 709 ; Bp. Bev, et Mag. de 



Zool. 18.j4, p. 54.3. 

 Otus manadensis, ScJd. Faiin. Japan. Aves, p. 26. 

 Megascops menadensis, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 230. 



Adult. Above sandy brown, with numerous central streaks of black, 

 more or less broken up into bars, each feather with conterminous iiil- 

 vescent bars, deeper and more sandy I'ufous on the head, this giving 



