82 BtTBONID-i:. 



brown bars ; inner under wing-covcrts ycllovrish wliite, tbe edge of 

 the wing also whitish, the coverts near the edge dark brown mottled 

 with fulvous spots, the lowest series blackish, the bases yellowish 

 Avhite, resembling the inner lining of the (juills, which are for the 

 most part blackish, with a few broad bars of yellowish white near 

 the base of the inner web, the tips of the quills with a few slightly 

 indicated pale rufous bars. Total length 8 inches, M'ing oiJ, tail 2*9, 

 tarsus l"lo. 



Ohs. The differences exhibited by the series of specimens in the 

 Museum are not very considerable, although few are quite so dark 

 as the one described. Two of these rather lighter examples have 

 the auricular tufts barred across Avith rufous butf, but ditfer more 

 conspicuously in the greater amount of variegation on the under 

 parts, which are very prettily mottled with the white bars ; these 

 are fully developed as narrow bars on the breast- feathers ; and the 

 flanks and alKlominal plumes have, in many instances, bars right 

 across the feathers, both near the tip and near the base. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



rt. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar. Ileer F. Pollen [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. S.W. Madagascar. Mr. A. Orossley [C.]. 



(Brown phase.) 



d. Ad. sk. S.W. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



(Rufous phase.) 



e. Ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.l. 

 /. Juv. sk. S.E. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.l. 

 g. Ad. sk. N. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 

 h, i. Skeletons. N. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



7. Scops sylvicola. 



Scops sylvicola, IVulL P. Z. 6". 1863, p. 487 ; Grny, Haml-l. B. i. 



p. 45. 

 Ephialtes sylvicola, Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 25. 



Immature female {ij]}e oi ii])ec\Qs). General colour sandy brown, 

 freckled all over ■with a profusion of wa\y lines of blackish, nowhere 

 very strongly defined ; the dorsal feathers very broadly centred 

 with black, from which radiate some distinct wavy lines of the same 

 colour, forming tolerably broad cross bars of black on the hinder 

 neck ; the head and interscapulary region paler, being of an ashy 

 fulvous colour, with dusky brown cross lines ; ear-tufts also pale, 

 and resembling the pale buft' colour of the head, 1 inch long ; sides 

 of face and throat fulvous, the dusky brown cross lines very indi- 

 stinct ; the re.st of the under surface paler fulvous, the cross bars 

 diisky and indistinct, but rather broader than on the throat, a few 

 feathers Avhite, mesially streaked with black, with lateral zigzag 

 lines of inifous brown ; leg-feathers white, with a few obsolete 

 brown cross bars ; wing-coverts sandy brown, A\ith broad central 

 markings of black, all the feathers pencilled with blackish cross lines, 

 and most of them varied with distinct spots of sandy buff: the spu- 



