4. scors. 89 



and banded across with narrow blackish cross linos ; behind the ear- 

 coverts a tolerably distinct ruff of whitish feathers washed ■\\ith 

 sandy rnfous before the tip, which is black, this ruff continued 

 across the throat, where a few of the plumes are somewhat deeper 

 rufous, crossed with blackish lines ; chm white, the lower feathei'S 

 washed with fidvous and crossed mth numerous fine lines of dark 

 brown ; across the fore neck a faint indication of a white band ; 

 centre of the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white, the latter 

 with a few narrow rufous cross lines ; rest of under surface ashy 

 whitish, strons^ljf inclining to sandy colour, especially on the chest 

 and sides, aU the feathers crossed with narrow brown, occasionally 

 rufous, lines, and varied here and there with blackish central streaks ; 

 tibial plumes yellowish buff, inclining to buffy white on the tarsi, 

 narrowly barred across with dark brown ; under wing-coverts pale 

 sandy buff, rather more rufescent near the edge of the wing, which 

 is white, the marginal coverts slightly marked with dark bro-mi bars, 

 the lower series ashy brown, yellowish white at base, resembling the 

 inner lining of the quills, which are ashy brown, barred with yel- 

 lowish white on the inner web ; iris black. Total length 11-5 inches, 

 wing 7, tail 4, tarsus 1-5. 



Adult male. Very similar to the female, but rather smaller. Total 

 length 10 inches, wing G-85, tail 4*3, tarsus 1-4. 



Hah. China (Ningpo, Amoy, Foochow, Canton) ; Formosa. 



a. Ad. St. North China. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk. Ningpo, China, April 1872. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Ningpo, China, March 1872. E. Swinhoe, Esq. LC.I. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Ningpo, China, May 1872. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.J. 



Subsp. ft. Scops erythrocampa. 



Scops, sp., Swinhoe, His, 1861, p. 29. 

 Scops lempiji, Sclafer, Ibis, 18(31,.p. 29. 

 Lempijius erythrocampe, Stciidi. Ibis, 1874, p. 2G9. 



Adult (Fokien). Above sandy brown, coarsely vermiculated with 

 blackish brown, a good many of the feathers blackish in the centre, 

 causing a slightly streaked appearance to the upper surface, the 

 scapulars externally ochraceous, very few of them with any blackish 

 vermiculations on the outer web ; head rather darker than the back, 

 the feathers blackish in the centre, minutely notched with rufous 

 buff, some of the occipital feathers spotted with white, forming a 

 very indistinct bar, the nape with a second bar of white-mottled 

 feathers not plainer than the former one ; the hind neck ochraceous 

 buff, slightly barred with brown, some of the feathers barred with 

 white, and forming a very distinct collar ; loral plumes very distinctly 

 white, the shafts terminating in blackish bristles ; tlie feathers over 

 the eye and the forehead white, the plumes narrowly streaked and 

 barred with blacldsh ; sides of the crown greyish white, forming an 

 indistinct band running along the sides of the head and continued 

 along the depressed ear-tufts, the inner webs of which are greyish 



