80 TlTTIiONlD.T:. 



Subsp. d. Scops rutilus. 



Scops rutilus, Pucher. Hev. ct Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 29; id. Arch, 



dii Mils. iv. p. ;12(') ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 48 ; StricJd. Orn. Syn. p. 204 ; 



Ilartl. Faun. Maday. p. 22 j Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 40 ; Gurney, 



Ibk, 1809, p. 452. 

 Ephialtes rutilus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 30 a. 

 Megascops rutilus, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. Ill; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 229. 

 Pisorhiua rutilus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. dv Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Scops menadensis, IlaHl. Faun. Madat/. p. 23; 8chl. P. Z. S. 1800, 



p. 41; Grand. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1807, p. 521; Schl. ^- Poll. 



Faun. Maday. p. 28; Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 41. 



Rnfotis pliase. General colour above bright foxy rufous, veiy 

 scantily varied with black markings, which arc generally confined 

 to indistinct shaft-stripes and small lateral cross markings, rather 

 broader and more distinct on the crown of the head ; the sca- 

 pulars externally white towards the tip of the feather, contrast- 

 ing markedly with the back, but not forming a continuous linear 

 streak ; upper wing-coverts duller rufous than the back, and more 

 coarsely vermiculated with blackish cross markings, especially at 

 the base of the median series, which, however, are almost uniform 

 foxy rufous at the tips, the greater series nearly uniform exteniaUy, 

 but barred with lighter buff, and mottled with blackish on the inner 

 web ; primary coverts blackish, only slightly varied with rufous ex- 

 ternally and at the tips ; quills for the most part dusky brown, 

 especially on the inner webs, which are almost uniform, with but 

 faint indications of lighter or more rufescent bars, the tips more 

 distinctly rufescent, the corresponding light ^ spots or bars on the 

 primaries rufous, some of them whitisli ; secondaries dusky bro^vn 

 on the inner web, the light bars very indistinct, even on the outer 

 webs, which are vermiculated with indistinct lines and spots of 

 brown, the innermost secondaries almost entirely duU foxy rufous, 

 with more or less distinct transvermiculations of blackish, forming 

 here and there indications of bars ; upper tail-coverts resembhng the 

 back, but a little more dingy ; tail dull foxy rufous, barred with didl 

 blackish, of which bars nine or ten can be disting-uished on the outer 

 feathers, where they are broader than the rufescent interspaces, the 

 centre feathers more mottled with blackish, neither the dark nor the 

 light bars distinctly indicated; lores white, vnih elongated black 

 hair-like shafts ; an indistinct eyebrow whitish, the feathers mar- 

 gined with foxy red, and tipped with dark brown ; ear-tufts exactly 

 resembling the crown ; sides of face bright foxy red, with a few in- 

 distinct streaks of silvery white on the ear-coverts, behind which 

 runs a slightly developed ruff of buff plumes, narrowly tipped with 

 black ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface of body bright foxy red, 

 like the back, many of the feathers mesiaUy streaked with blackish, 

 these streaks narrower on the flanks, many of the lateral and abdo- 

 minal feathers being mottled and tipped with white ; the feathers on 

 each side of the vent white, barred with foxy rufous ; on the fore 



