4. SCOPS. 97 



11. Scops leucotis. 



StiTx leucotis, Temm. PI. Col i. pi. Id 



Otus leucotis, Steph. Gen. Zool xiii. pt. 2, p. 57 ; Stnith, S.-Afr. Q. 



Journ. ii. p. 316; Riipp. Si/st. Uibcrs. p. 12. 

 Asio leucotis, Less. Man. d'Oin, i. p. ll(i. 

 Scops leucotis, Sicains. Clti.s,sif. B. ii. p. 217, et B. W. Afr. ii. p. 124; 



Strickl. a,- Sclater, Contr. Orn. l8o2, p. 142 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 203 ; Ifarfl Orn. W.-Afr. p. 20 ; Gray, Hand-/, i. p. 4G ; Bocage, 



Jotii. Set. Linb. i. pp. 132," 330, ii. p. 338; Gurnvi/, ed. Anderss. B. 



Dam. Ld. p. 40; >Sharpc, ed. Laijard, B. S. Afr.'-^. 74. 

 Ephialtes leucotis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38 : id. Cat. Accipitr. B. M. 



1848, p. 97; Cass. Cat. Striytdce Philad. Mm. p. 11; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 4.j; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 41. 

 Ptilopsis leucotis, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. •22-'), et Contr. Orn. 18-52, 



p. Ill ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 542 ; Antin. ^- Salvad. 



Viagg. Bogos. p. 39. 

 -Egolius leucotis, Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 14. 

 Bubo leucotis, Schlegel, Mas. P.-B. Oti, p. 17; Finsch S^ Hartl. 



Vog. Ostafr. p. lOl!; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 115; Schl. Revue 



Accipitr. p. 6. 



Adult Duile. General colour above ashy grey, narro^vly vermiculated 

 across with dark brown, the dorsal plumes with more or less distinct 

 mesial streaks of black ; scapulars pure white on the outer web, 

 forming a distinct longitudinal patch down the wing ; head much 

 lighter grey than the back, the feathers in the centre of the crown 

 blackish, mottled with white, which i.s distributed in duplicate spot.s 

 on either web ; sides of the crown paler and more whitish, delicately 

 pencilled with transverse linear vermiculations ; auricular tufts 

 1-S inch long, coloiu-ed and pencilled like the crown, black on the 

 outer web for nearly the apical half of the plume, the tip also black ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, but more obscurely mottled, 

 the dark mesial streaks being browner and somewhat less pro- 

 nounced than on the back, the median series paler and having the 

 ground-colour of the feathers whiter than the other series ; edge of 

 the wing all round pure white ; primary and greater coverts greyish 

 white, broadly barred across with dark brown, the hght interspaces 

 freckled and obscured with brown vermiculations ; quills greyish 

 brown, barred across with brown, these bars being about nine in 

 number on the primaries, which incline to greyish m hite on their 

 outer margin ; the secondaries similarlj- coloured and haviuo- 

 whitish tips, tlie interspaces of these quills decidedly grey, freckled 

 with brown vermiculations, the innermost secondaries coloured more 

 like the back, vermiculated with brown, but the dark cross bars 

 nearly obsolete ; tail ashy grey, crossed with about nine bars of 

 dark brown, irregular in shape, the interspaces freckled with brown 

 vermiculations ; lores, eyebrow, and entire face pure white, the 

 hinder margin of the ear-coverts black, forming a distinct broad bar 

 of black down the sides of the head ; over the eye a patch of greyish 

 brown feathers : sides of neck pale greyish white, with very minute 

 transverse frccklings of brown ; under surface of body pale ashy 

 grey, aU the feathers crossed with narrow linear frecklings of brown, 



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