4. SCOPS. 91 



lu. Scops lempiji. 



Strix lempiji, Iloisf. Tr. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 140. 



Strix uoctiila, Tcnini. PL Col. ii. pi. 99. 



Scops noctula, Sti'2)h. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 52 ; Svhl. Mus. P.-B. 



Oti, p. 24. 

 Scops javanicus, Less. Traite, p. 107 ; Puchcr. Pev. et Maq. ile Zuvl. 



184it, p. 2(3. 

 Scops lempiji, Bhith, J. A. S. B. xv. pt. 1, p. 182 ; id. Cat. B. 3Li.f. 



A. S. B. p. •'!(■); Bj). Cunsp. i. p. 47; Sfrickl. Oni. Hi/n. p. 200; 



Grill/, ILuid-l. B. i. p. 40 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Pevue Accipitr. p. 1."] ; 



Salvud. TJcc. Borneo, p. 19. 

 Megascops lempiji, Kaiip, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 112; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 229. 

 Lempijius indicus, Bp. Pec. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Lempijius noctula, Bp. Per. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 54.3. 

 Ephialtes lempiji, Gnni, Gen.B.i. p. 38; Horsf.S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mas. 



E. I. Co. i. p. 71 ; Wall. Ibis, 1808, p. 24; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 409. 



Younj (Malacca, Lord Ellenhorour/7i). General colour light sandy 

 rufous, everywhere barred with dusky blackish cross lines, more 

 thickly pronounced on the head ; quills and tail, as far as developed, 

 resembling these parts in the adult ; forehead and feathers over the 

 eye pale fawn-colour, with veiy few dusky cross lines ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of face bright bay, with a few wavy cross lines of blackish 

 on the hinder ones ; under surface pale sandy buff, numerously 

 barred with dusky brown, these cross markings nowhere very di- 

 stinct ; bill yellowish horn. 



Adult (Malacca, A. P. Wallace). Above clear sandy brown, 

 coarsely vermiculated with wavy cross lines of black, many of the 

 feathers with broad but irregularly formed streaks of black ; sca- 

 pulars more or less sandy buff on the outer web, the cross lines a])- 

 parent at the tips of the lower ones, but nearly absent on the upper 

 scapulars, some of which are nearly entirely sandy buff on both 

 webs ; round the hind neck a tolerably distinct collaret of sandy 

 buff feathers, only varied with blackish markings towards the ti})s 

 of the feathers ; crown of head blackish in the centre, the plumes 

 laterally rufous buff, with very narrow black cross lines ; forehead 

 and a broad streak on each side of the crown sandy buff, the feathers 

 narrowly sti'caked with black along the shaft, and varied towards 

 the tip with a few blackish cross lines, the ear-tufts (1 inch long) 

 which form part of the light lateral band on the sides of the crown, 

 being pale sandy buff sliglitly varied with zigzag lines of black 

 towards the tips, which are very broadly black ; over the eye a 

 patch of buffy white feathers, each terminally margined with a 

 narrow line of black ; lores sandy buff, with whitish bases ; sides of 

 face sandy buff, indistinctly barred across with narrow lines of dusky 

 black, the hindermost ear-coverts rather broadly tipped with the 

 same ; behind the ear-coverts an indistinct ruff of sandy buff feathers 

 extenchng across the centre of the throat, many of the plumes nar- 

 rowly barred across with blackish lines, and all rather broadly tip])ed 

 with black ; rest of under surface of liody entirel)- sandy buff', varied 

 with narrow cross lines of dark brown, (he chest with broad central 



