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BUB0NIDJ5. 



iiig nearly so far down the leg in S. hulli as it does in S. modestus. 

 This will be seen at a glance in the following woodcuts. 



Leg ol' <S'. haHi (type). Leg of <S'. viodeshts (tjpe). 



The following is a description of the type specimen of S. modestus : — 

 Immature (type of species). General colour above dull sandy 

 brown, slightly rufescent in places, everywhere crossed with coarse 

 zigzag lines of black ; scapulars externally white, washed on the 

 margin and at the tip with rufous, and irregularly mottled with 

 black ; wing-covei'ts pale sandy brown, barred with darker brown, 

 the greater ones tipped with whitish ; the bastard wing notched 

 with buff)' white; primary coverts sandy rufous, barred with 

 brown ; quills sandy rufous, crossed with vermiculated bars of dark 

 brown, the primaries with white notches on the outer web ; tail 

 sandy rufous, strongly vermiculated with blackish forming four 

 distinguishable bars, the light interspaces shading off into white on 

 the margin of both webs ; lores white, as well as the feathers over 

 the eye, forming a tolerably distinct eyebrow ; feathers of the side 

 face sandy colour, barred with white, especially broad on the cheeks 

 and hinder ear-coverts ; chin white ; fore neck and chest sandy 

 brown, with irregular bars of blackish, and here and there an indi- 

 cation of a whitish bar ; rest of under surface white, slightly washed 

 here and there with sandy buff, and crossed with irregular bars of 

 brown, the leg-feathers similarly coloured ; under taU-coverts white, 

 with a zigzag bar of brown near the tip of the feather ; under wing- 

 coverts white, marked with brown near the outer edge of the wing, 

 the lower series brown, barred with sandy buff on the inner web, 

 resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are barred on the 

 inner web and notched on the outer with sandy buff, the whole of 

 the quills mottled with this colour towards the tips. Total length 

 6'8 inches, wing 4-75, tail 2-3, tarsus 1. (Mus. Lord Wcdden.) 

 Hah. S. Andamans. 



] 4. Scops rufescens. 



Strix rufescens, Horsf. Tr. Linn. S'oc. xiii. p. 140. 



Scops rufescens, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 217; Blyth, J. A. S. B. x\y. 



p. 181 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 201 ; Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 46 ; Sclil. 



Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 10; S'fdvad. TJcc. Born. p. 19. 

 Otus mantis, Tcinni. lV Schl. Fuvn. Jap. Arcs, p. 25. 



