4. scors. 85 



silvery white ; bchiiul the car-coverts a distinct ruff of ocliraceous 

 buff feathers, broadlj- tipped with black, this ruff descending on the 

 gorget, and forming a collar across the throat, the plumes here being 

 rather paler, mesially streaked and narrowly barred with black ; 

 chin whitish, the plumes of the throat buffy white, with fine trans- 

 verse cross lines of blackish ; below the gular niff a line of white 

 feathers across the fore neck, the centre of the body also pure white ; 

 rest of under surface sandy buff, with distinct blackish centres, aU 

 the feathers marked with wavy cross lines of dark bro^^^l, many of 

 them barred with white, more broadly on the flanks ; the under 

 taU-coverts white, with central streaks of brown washed with ful- 

 vous near the tips, which have a few wavy lines of brown ; tibial 

 plumes bright tawny, the tarsal ones buffy white, with scanty cross 

 lines of dark brown, the plumes extending for two thirds of the 

 niidcUe and outer digits, and for half the inner and hinder one ; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, the outer ones washed with buff, and 

 marked with brown, the lower series ashy brown, yellowish white 

 at base, like the inner lining of the quills, which are ashy broAvn, 

 barred with yeUo\vish M'hite near the base of the inner web. Total 

 length 10 inches, wing 7"25, tail 3*S5, tarsus 1'3. 

 Hab. Japan. 



rt. Ad. st. Nagasaki, Japan. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Scops plumipes. 



Ephialtes plumipes, Hione, Rough Xotes, ii. p. 397. 



Ephialtes semitorques, Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 348. 



Scops plumipes, Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. i. p. 68. 



Ohs. Mr. Hume has kindly sent me two specimens of this Scops 

 Owl recently described by him. It holds much the same relation 

 to S. semitorques of Japan that 8. lettia of the Himalayas does to 

 /S'. elerjans of China, being smaller and, in its brown phase, darker, 

 while it further differs m possessing a grey phase, resembling the 

 grey phase of ;S'. malaharicus, which was called by Jerdon S. griscus. 

 The measurements of Mr. Hume's two specimens are as follows : — 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. 



rt. $ . Kotegurh, 1868 8-5 6-8 37 l-4o 



b. (S . Huttoo, near Narkanda, Sept. 26, 



1869 8-0 6-6 3-5 1-3 



Hah. Himalaya Mountains, 



9. Scops lettia. 



Scops lettia, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 176; id. in Graifs Zool. 

 3Iisc. p. 82 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 46 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Bevue 

 Acclpitr. p. 9 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. i. p. 67. 



Ephialtes lempiji, Grai/, Cat. Mamm. c^c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 51 ; 



