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considerably from the one described. It is not such a deep rufous 

 in colour, and is much more thickly spotted both above and below, 

 recalling Scops spUocephaJus ; the under siu'face is much paler and 

 greyer, the white bars very large and distinct, and extending even 

 on to the chest. Total length 7'5 inches, wing 5-G, tail 3-2, 

 tarsus 1'15. 



Hab. Andaman Islands. 



Ohs. It has been suggested by Mr. Hume that the bird from the 

 Andamans, named Scops modestus* by Lord Walden, miist be the 

 young bird of ;S. halli ; and I confess that, until I examined and com- 

 pared the tj^pes, I entertained a similar impression. Lord Walden, 

 however, having kindly lent me the original specimen of S. mndcsfas 

 for examination, I have come to the conclusion that the two species 

 are quite distinct. Lord Walden has two specimens precisely 

 similar ; and they seem to me to represent the young of some species 

 of the S. maJayamis type. Immature they certainly are ; but they 

 present too many differences for me to refer them to S. haUi. The 

 type of the latter has been lent to me by Mr. Hume ; and as the 

 wings and tail in *S. modestus are doubtless those of the adult bird, 

 I draw attention to the following characters, which, as it seems to 

 me, must separate the two ; for in no other species of Scops is such 

 a difference known between the young and the adult stages. 



Scojjs huUi, ad. 



Orectter iving -co verts and secon- 

 dary quills dull brown, externally 

 rufous chocolate, with minute 

 vermiculations of black, and a 

 few small notches of fulvous. 



Primary coverts nearly uni- 

 form blackish brown, vermicu- 

 lated with rufous chocolate at 

 the tips. Primaries dull brown, 

 rufescent at tips, notched with 

 white on outer web, the inter- 

 spaces inclining to rufous cho- 

 colate. 



Tail for the most part rufous 

 chocolate, like back, with indi- 

 cations of lighter bands, the 

 outer feather externally notched 

 with whitish. 



Scops modestus, juv. 



Greater iviny-coverts and secon- 

 dary quills alternately barred 

 with sandy rufous and dark 

 brown, the latter bars rather 

 broken up into vermiculations, 

 especially on outer margin ; the 

 greater coverts with white spots 

 near the tip of the outer web, 

 not present iu the secondaries. 



Primary coverts and ^iriniaries 

 dull brown on inner web, but 

 regularly banded with sandy ru- 

 fous and dark brown on outer 

 web ; some of the primaries with 

 whitish notches. 



2\iil regularly banded with 

 dark brown and sandy rufous, 

 the dark bars somewhat broken 

 up into vermiculations on the 

 centre feather. 



Again, the feathering of the tarsus is very different, not extend- 

 * Scops mudcstui:. Wakl. Aim. N. H. (4) siii. p. li'o, el Ibis, 1874. p. ll".). 



