4. SCOPS. 1U5 



b'. Tarsus bare for half its length nudipis, p. \'2\. 



. Size very large ; total length from 18 to 20 



inches ; ear-tufts about 2 inches long. 

 c'. Head rufous chocolate; feathers round 



the eye and ear-coverts entii-ely rufous . . cristata, p. T22. 

 cF. Head blackish ; feathers round the eye 

 black ; ear-coverts rufous, broadly tipped 

 vrith black strickhmdi, p. 124. 



10. Scops flainmeolus. 



Stiix fiammeola, Licltt. MS. in Mus. BeruL, unde 



Megascops flammeola, Kai/p, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 226. 



Epliialtes flammeola, Lkht. Xomencl. Av. p. 7. 



Scops flammeola. Scl. P. Z. S. 18-jS, p. 06 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Oti, 

 p. 27 ; Scl. 4'- Sah: P. Z. S. 1808, p. 57 ; iiih Ex. Om. pi. 50 ; Gray, 

 Iland-l. B. i. p. 47 ; Elliot, B. N. Am. i. pi. xxviii. ; Couvs, Key 

 N. A. Birds, p. 203 : Schl. Pevue Accipitr. p. 14 ; Ridyic. B. iV. A. 

 iii. p. 58; Scl. ^- Sah: Xomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 117; Coues, B. N. 

 W. p. 304. 



Adult {grey phase). Above grey, -with the usual blackish cross 

 vermiculations, most of the feathers also centred ■with a spade- 

 shaped streak of black, the scapulars externally white, slightly 

 spotted and tii)ped with black, and inclining to orange-buff on the 

 outer web, in marked contrast to the back ; head rather darker than 

 the back, but more mottled, the black centres to the feathers broader 

 and more spotted Avith white or bull' ; on the occiput a slight indi- 

 cation of a greyish white band, the feathers being barred with white, 

 on the nape a second bar of greyish white, not quite so distinct ; on 

 the hind neck a very distinct collar of white, streaked and barred 

 with black, and washed with orange-buff; sides of neck grey, very 

 finely lined with blackish venniculatious ; wing-coverts a little 

 darker than the back and similarly vermiculated, the least series 

 inclining to ochraceous, the spurious quills externally notched with 

 ochraceous buff, the median and greater coverts grey, the outer webs 

 pure white, very slightly vermiculated. and then only at the tip ; 

 primary coverts dark brown, with slight indications of sandy buff 

 bars, inclining to white near the base ; quills dark brown, with faint 

 indications of sandy bars towards the tips, the secondaries with 

 irregular sandy bars on the outer web, the pi-imaries extemallv 

 notched with white, the innermost secondaries greyish white, coarsely 

 mottled with brown : tail-feathers dark brown, with tolerably distinct 

 bai's of sandy brown, inclining to white on the outer web of all, but 

 especially of the external feathers, the bars on the taU about seven 

 in niunber ; lores huffy white, washed with rufous near the tip, the 

 shaft-lines produced into hair-like black bristles ; forehead and 

 feathers over the eye white, with narrow blackish tips, the sides of 

 the crown also greyish, extending to the ear-tufts, which have the 

 inner webs greyish white, with narrow cross lines of black : sides 

 of face grepsh white, the feathers round the eye dusky, all ban-ed 

 across with duU brown, washed with orange on the hinder margin 



