4. scors. 79 



brown, tipped with grcj'ish white, the innermost profusely mottled 

 with blackish vormiculations rcsombliiig the scapulars, the outer 

 secondaries blackish on the inner web, the outer webs narrowly 

 barred with light sandy buff, the intermediate blackish bars being 

 much broader and somewliat vcrmiculated with sandy lines ; tail- 

 feathers sandy brown, the central feathers mottled with blackish 

 vermiculations in the form of irregular bars, these bars more distinct 

 on the outer feathers, where about nine can be counted, the outer- 

 most tail-feather with distinct bars of blackish and sandy buff, many 

 of the latter inclining to whitish on their outer margin ; loral plumes 

 whitish, washed with brown, with elongated blackish shaft-bristles ; 

 frontal plumes and those over the fore part of the eye white, with a 

 few remains of blackish bars ; ear-coverts greyish white, slightly 

 washed with sandy rufous, and indistinctly crossed with narrow 

 blackish bars ; behind the ear-coverts an indistinct ruff of orange-buff 

 feathers, narrowly barred with brown ; the long stiff plumes reaching 

 below the above-mentioned coverts of the same orange-buff colour, 

 with a narrow tip of blackish, preceded by a distinct subterminal 

 bar of white ; chin-feathers whitish ; throat and chest sandy buff, 

 with a few indications of blackish zigzag lines, varied with irregular 

 bars of white near the tips of the chest-feathers, the lower throat 

 also slightly washed with greyish ; rest of under surface white, with 

 here and there a tinge of sandy or orange-buff, the blackish shaft- 

 stripes very distinctly indicated on most of the feathers, which are 

 varied with narrow wavy lines of blackish brown ; the under tail- 

 coverts almost entirely white, with only a few tiny lines of blackish 

 near the tips of the feathers, which are also slightly washed with 

 sandy buff; tibia; distinctly washed with orange-biiff, the tarsal 

 l)lumes uniform buffy white ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, 

 as also the edge of the wing, the coverts nearest the latter sandy 

 brown, indistinctly barred with blackish, the lowest series dusky 

 brown, the bases to the feathers yellowish white ; inner lining of 

 quills dusky brown, regularly barred with fulvous on the inner web 

 for the whole extent, the tips mottled with sandy buff", as they are 

 on the upper surface. Total length 8-5 inches, wing 6-25, tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 1-1. 



ILih. Flores. 

 a. Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. Type of species. 



Ohs. On comparing this 8cops Owl with the true ^'. menadensis, 

 to which it has been joined by Mr. Wallace (Ibis, 18G8, p. 25 ; cf. 

 Lord Waldcn, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 40), it is certain that it is closely allied, 

 but differs in several particulars. It has a distinct wash of "grey on 

 the u])per surface, and has the cheeks greyish white ; but the prin- 

 ci])al difference lies in the white belly, where it is the i^rcvailing 

 colour, the cross markings and lines being very scanty. 



