4. SCOPS. 83 



rious quills extornally notched with biiffy white, the edge of the 

 wing being also of the latter colour ; primary coverts dull sandv, 

 with Humorous fine cross vermiculation^ of black, and indications 

 ot three cross bars of sandy colour ; quills dark brown on the inner 

 web, barred across with ashy bro^^^l ; these bars nearly obsolete, but 

 represented on the outer web with distinct square spots of sandy 

 butf, sometimes slightly mottled with brown vermiculations, the 

 darker brown cross bands being also sometimes mottled with 'ashy . 

 buff; the secondaries more rufous, the dark bands not so distinctly 

 indicated, and the whole of the inner quills more vermiculatcd, so 

 as to resemble the back in a greater degree ; tail dark brown, crossed 

 with nine bars of sandy buff on the middle feathers, and with ten or 

 eleven on the outer ones ; these bars less distinct towards the end 

 ol the tail-feathers, which, like the tips of the wings, are coarsely 

 vermiculatcd, and thus the bars become merged. Total len"-th 12-5 

 inches, \ving &6, tail 4-9, tarsus 1-4. ° 



Hub. Flores. 



a. 5 imm. sk. Flores, 1862. A. E. WaUace, Esq. [P.]. Ty^e of 



species. 

 Ohs. This bird is distinguished by its large size ; but, from the 

 immaturity of the type specimen, at present the only one known, I 

 am unable to place it in its true position in the synopsis. 



8. Scops semitorques. 



Otus semitorques, Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 2o, pi. 8. 



Ephialtes semitorques, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38; Cass. Cat. Strimdce 



FInlad. Mus. p. 11. 

 Scops semitorques, Bp. Consp. i. p. 46 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Oti p '>3 • 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 46 ; Sch. Rev. Accipitr. p. 9. ' ^- - ' 



Megascops semitorques, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 230 ; id. Contr Orn 



1852, p. 112. 

 Asio semitorques, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 209. 

 Lempijius semitorques, Bp. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854 n .543- 



Swinh. P.Z.S.\%l\,-^.?,\?j. ' ' 1- ) 



Scops asio, var. semitorques, Ridyw. B. X. Am. iii. p. .56. 



Adult. Above dull sandy brown, obscurely vermiculatcd with 

 blackish cross lines, most of the feathers distinctly blackish in the 

 centre, and laterally barred with the same, especially on the sca- 

 pidars, which are very distinctly marked with black and spotted 

 with ochraceous buflf, the outer feathers externally clear ochraceous 

 buff, with a distinct shaft-streak and narrow edging of blackish • 

 head and neck coloured like the back, most of the feathers blackish 

 in the centre, with a double lateral spot of rufous buff; on the 

 hinder head and neck three bars of buff, the first on the occiput 

 very small, and indicated only by a few bars of buff or greyish 

 white on the feathers ; on the nape a second one, of buii'-barred 

 plumes, forming a more distinct band than the previous one, but 

 not so distinct as the one on the hind neck, which is ver^ broad 



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