4. SCOPS. 

 17. Scops bartarus. 



lo: 



Scops fla^?^'^«°l%J'5:"*'f '^ f'^' Isef p. 57 ; iid. Ex. Orn. p. 101, 



p. 117. 

 ^*t?L a«V P^^^'se (type of species). Above brown barred across 

 wifh andy butf, tbe bai4 on tl.e binder neck paler and more wbite, 

 formint a^indof indistinct collar, the head much darker brown, 

 spoSand barred with dtdl rufous, the forehead spotted with white, 

 the e white spots continued on the sides of the crown to the nape, 

 where the feathers are barred with white, so as to form a very 

 JstTnet nuchal collar; scapulars white on the outer web, tipped 

 tt" black and forming a' distinct shoulder-patch; -ng-coverts 

 Tathei darker than the back, spotted and barred with sandy buff, the 

 medkn and greater series marbled with fulvous markings, the outer 

 webHvith more or less perfect oval spots of white, the spurious 

 quiUsrotchedwith white externally ; primary coverts^amostent^^^^^^^^^ 



dark brown, with only a few rufous markings near the^ base quUls 

 dark brown the inner webs uniform or with only the faintest indi- 

 cations ol Ighter bars, the outer webs slightly notched or barred 

 with rufous sandy, the primaries very distinctly no ched with white 

 Txtt-^aUy the innermost secondaries marbled with white or sandy 

 buff Ske he greater coverts ; tail tolerably uniform dark browu, 

 wfh a few nearly obsolete sandy bars or spots towards the tips the 

 Tu er featlers notched with white ; lores whitish, tipped with black, 

 he^eJSJhers extending backwards --^he fore part of the eye ; 

 sides of face greyish white, regularly barred with blackish, the 

 iumes above emd below the eye rufescent ; all the feathers of ear- 

 covSt eyebrow, and lores with their shafts enormon..ly produced 

 in hair-like b istles, forming a fringe round the face ; ear- ufts 

 backish barred with white, so as to assimilate to the nuchal coUar ; 

 ^ff ound the neck regularly barred with white and black, being 

 Wlv tipped with the fatter colour, the gular plumes ess distmcly 

 Wd^he^ross bars being dusky ; chin whitish, as also he centre 

 of he abdomen ; rest of under surface marbled wi h black and 

 wh te the latter forming distinct bars on the chest, but much larger 

 Tn the flanks, some of the feathers here showmg traces of rufous 

 bars • under taU-coverts white, with a slight tinge of rufous and a 

 sub erminal spot of blackish ; leg-feathers sandy rufous barred with 

 dark b^own, the tarsal plumes whitish on the lateral and hinder 

 aspects, not descending to the junction of the toes, which are eon- 

 sen uenly bare ; under wing-coverts yellowish, the outer edge of the 

 wiV^ Se, with a few bars of dark brown on the adjacent leathers ; 

 bill yeUow, dark brown at base. Total length v inches, wmg o-35, 

 foil '-{ fnrsus 1-05. (Mu-1. SaMn and Godman.) 



i?i l/l Tot;ii;difterent from the grey phase. Genera^ colour 



above £t bav, obsoletely barred with duU bmvn, the feathers 



Mvcseent^earVheir bases, most of the dorsal plumes mesially 



caked and lipped with black, some of them with rather distmct 



