4. SCOPS. 103 



Ephialtes mantis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38 : Wall. Ibis, 1808, p. 24 



Scops mautis, Strickl. Oni. Si/n. p. :^01 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Oti, p. 2o ; 

 Graij, Iland-l. B. i. p. 40. . 



Ephialte.s rulescens, Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 71. 



Lompijius mantis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Adidt (type oi Scops mantis). Everywhere bright tawny rufous, 

 browner on the head and upper parts generally, these also vaned 

 with small triangular cross bars of fulvous, which become larger and 

 more distinct on the wing-coverts ; the outer margin of the scapulars 

 paler and more inclining to tawny fulvous; ear-coverts 1-05 inch 

 long, and coloured like the head ; lores and forehead clear fulvous, 

 with little black spots along the shaft of the feathers ; sides of face 

 rufous, inclining to dark brown round the eye ; behind the ear- 

 coverts a lino of black feathers running down the sides of the neck ; 

 under surface of body tawny rufous, paler on the lower parts, and 

 varied with little tiny spots of black along the shafts, less distinct 

 towards the abdomen, and absent on thighs and under tail-coverts, 

 which are uniform ta^vny buff; quills dark brown, barred across 

 with fulvous, paler on the outer margin of primaries, but less distinct 

 on the secondaries, which are almost uniform rufous like the back, 

 but with indistinct bars of dark bro^ra on the inner web ; tail 

 rafous, mottled with dark ^rown vermiculations, making it look 

 darker than the back, with remains of five or six more or less plainly 

 indicated fulvous bars ; under wing-eoverts bu% white, more tawny 

 on outer edge, and haA-ing a line of dark brown feathers near the 

 outer margin. Total length 9-4 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 5-2, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 1-05. (Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 

 a. 2 ad. sk. Mount Opliir, Malacca. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Malacca. R- B. Sliarpe, Esq. [P.J. 



15. Scops icterorhyncha. 



Scops icterorhyncha, Shelley, Ibis, 1873, p. 138. 

 Ad^dt (type of species). General colour above pale sandy, with 

 scarcely any appearance of vermiculations at all on the back, the 

 head, however, being scantily vermiculated ; aU the upper sur- 

 face indistinctly steUated with bufty white spots or smaU bars, all 

 these light spots relieved by a narrow hne of dark brovrn ; the hind 

 neck more distinctly mottled with bars of buffy white, the bases to 

 the feathers being also of this light colour, stiU without showing any 

 evidences of a neck-collar ; ear-tufts 0-85 inch long, vermiculated 

 with brown zigzag lines, like the rest of the crown, but distinctly 

 mottled with buif transverse bars ; outer scapulars yellowish white 

 cxtemaUy, ^A•ith irregular but distinct cross bars of black, confined 

 to the outer web ; wing-coverts rather more rufous than the back, 

 with arrow-head spots or bars of sandy buff, incUuing to whitish on 

 the median scries, the greater ones with a large spot of white at the 

 tip of the outer web, the spurious quills also externally notched with 

 huffy while : primary coverts sandy buff, with minute blackish vcr- 



