94 urBOXiDiE. 



but a little more dingy ; tail-feathers dark brown, profusely niottled 

 with sandy buff near the tips, and barred most irregularly with the 

 same colour, the bars on the centre feathers not even being conter- 

 minous ; loral plumes whitish at base, washed with rufous near the 

 tips, and indistinctly barred across with black ; all the feathers 

 round the eye and the ear-coverts sandy rufous, obscurely barred 

 across vfith. black, paler and more whitish on the lower margin of 

 the ear-coverts, where they join the ruff, which is composed of huffy 

 white feathers, broadly tijiped with black, the plumes on the thi-oafc 

 liaving additional narrow cross lines of black; the chin-feathers 

 whitish ; rest of under siu'faco dull fulvous, very thickly obscured 

 with cross verraiculations of dark brown, many of the feathers with 

 longitudinal black streaks, narrower and less pronounced on the 

 abdomen and flanks, where the feathers are whiter and less thickly 

 mottled ; leg-feathers dull tawny, thickly barred with d irk brown ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a few vermiculatory markings of 

 brown near the tips ; under wing-coverts sandy buff, the outermost 

 mottled with brown, the lower series ashy brown, with concealed 

 3'ellowish bases, the inner lining of the quills ashy brown, with faint 

 indications of paler bars, and barred with sandy buff near the base 

 of the inner web ; bill yellowish. Total length 9 inches, wing 6-4, 

 tail 3-4, tarsus 1-5. (Mus. B. Swinhoe.) 



Hah. Hainan. 



Ohs. The type specimen kindly lent me by Mr. Swinhoe shows 

 that this is a form of ;S. lempiji differing from the ordinary ex- 

 amples of that species by its less rufous coloration and greater 

 amount of vermicnlation. At the same time, however, it so closely 

 resembles greyish brown birds which I have seen from Java, in 

 Lord Walden's collection, and which we have in the Museum from 

 the " Sunda Islands," as to seem but a large edition of that spe- 

 cies ; but, until more specimens arrive, it will be difficult clearly to 

 settle its position. 



Subsp. /3. Scops malabaricus. 



Scops javanicus, Jercl. Madr. Joum. x. p. 89 (jiec Less.). 



Scops malabaricus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 119; Hume, Sir. F. i. 



p. 454. 

 Scops gi-iseus, Jerd, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 119. 

 Scops lettoides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. pt. 1, p. 182 (e.r Jerd. MS.). 

 Ephialtes malabaricus, Hume, Bouffh Notes, ii. p. 402; Jerd. H)is, 



1871, p. 348. 

 Ephialtes griseus, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 398 ; Je)d. Ibis, 1871, 



p. 348. 

 Eplaialtes jerdoni, Walden, Ann. N. H. (4) v. p. 417. 

 Ephialtes bakkanuma, Holdsio. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 417. 

 Scops bakliauiEena, Hume, Nests mid Eggs hid. B. p. 69. 



Adult (rufous phase). General colour above light sandy, with 

 tolerably distinct vermiculations of black, all the dorsal feathers 

 mesially streaked with the latter colour, many of these central 

 markings being in the form of spear-shaped spots ; the scapulars 

 externally sandy buff, blackish at the tips of the outer webs, on 



