78 HUBONID.'E. 



with sandy buff like the upper. Total length 8-5 inches, wing 5-8, 

 tail 3-4, tarsus 1. 



Another spcciraeu in the collection measures as follows — total 

 length 8 inches, wing 5*8, tail 3-1, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Celebes and adjacent islands (Sanghir &c.). 



a. Ad. St. Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [P.l. 



h. Ad. sk. Menado, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C,]. 



c. Pull. sk. Menado, Celebes. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. (S ad. sk. Makassar, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



Ohs. Scops menadensis is in reality a small form of S. magiais, to 

 which it bears considerable resemblance ; but the more slender legs 

 and lesser size distinguish it from that and the allied subspecies. 



Notwithstanding the oft-repeated assertion of the identity of Scops 

 menadensis of Celebes and S. rutUiis of Madagascar, 1 think that the 

 two can well be distinguished ; for, in addition to minor and less 

 important characters, the aspect of the inner lining of the quills is, 

 in my opinion, sufficient to separate them, in the brown phase at all 

 events. In the Madagascar birds this is nearly uniform, with only 

 a few broad bars of yellowish white near the base of the feathers ; 

 but in S. menadensis the whole wing is narrowly barred with ful- 

 vous for its entire extent, and on the outer web of the first primary 

 the spots arc eight or nine in number ; in S. ridilus they arc not 

 more than six. The upper surface of S. menadensis is more stel- 

 lated, the spots being more yellowish in appearance. 



Subsp. ^. Scops siaoensis. 



Scops siaoensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipttr. p. 1-3. 



" Similar to Scojis menadensis, but of very small size. Total length 

 7 inches, wing 4-9, tail 2-1." {Scldegel, I.e.) 



Hah. Siao-oudang, between Celebes and Sanghir. 



Subsp. 7/. Scops albiventris. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Scops menadensis (pt.), Schl. S,- Wall. I. c. (ex Flores). 



Adult. Above pale sandy brown, minutely vermiculatod with 

 blackish zigzag lines, the feathers mesially streaked with black, the 

 plumes of the hind neck light buff, with distinct cross lines of black ; 

 the outer scapulars for the greater part pure white, with broad dark 

 brown tips, forming a small shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts coloured 

 and marked exactly like the back, the light mottlings rather larger 

 on the median and greater series, the inner webs of these being 

 nearly uniform dark brown, the outer coverts adjoining the edge of 

 the wing distinctly notched with white or huffy white; primary 

 coverts sandy brown, mottled and barred across with blackish ; quiUs 

 blackish, mottled and barred with sandy brown towards the extreme 

 tips of both webs of the primaries, these being notched or barred 

 with sandy buff, more or less inclining to white, and giving a che- 

 quered appearance to two thirds of the primaries ; secondaries sandy 



