4. SCOPS. 109 



Scops choliba, J)' Orb. Voy. Am. Merid. Ois. p. 132; Tsdmdi, Faun, 



I'cnian. p. 118; Strickl. Orti. ISyn. p. 204. 

 Epbialles watsoni, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1848, p. 123 ; id. Jown, 



Pliilad. Acad. ii. p. 95, pi. xii. fifj. 1. 

 Otus brasiliensis, Temm. ^- Schl. Fatm. .Tap. p. 25. 

 Scops brasiliensis, Bp. C'utisp. i. p. 4(> ; Kattp, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 112 ; 



Schl. 3Lis. P.-B. Oti, p. 21; id. Rente Accipitr. p. 11. 

 Scops watsoni, Bp. Comp. i. p. 4G ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 47. 

 Megascops atricapilla, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 228. 

 Megascops brasiliensis, Kuup, I. c. p. 228. 

 Ephialtes argeutiua, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 7 ; Schl. Mas. P.-B. Oti, 



p. 21. 

 Asio atricapilliis, Bp. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 

 Asio brasiliensis, Bp. I. c. p. 543. 

 Asio ■watsoni, Bp. I. c. p. 543. 

 Asio lopliotes, Bp. I. c. p. 543. 

 Scops decussata, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 126. 

 Scops argeutina, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 47. 

 Scops brasilianus. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 47 ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. p. 117. 



Ne&tlbui (Bahia : Wucherer). General colour saudy buff, slightly 

 tiuged with rufous on the back, everywhere regularly barred with 

 dusky brown, the head paler and having whitish downy tips to the 

 feathers of the forehead ; under surface sandy buff, rather inclining 

 to golden buff on the belly and flanks, where also the dusky cross 

 bars are more indistinct than they are on the chest ; leg-feathers 

 whitish, and several of the abdominal plumes with fluffy white tips. 



Adult. Above brown, vermiculated with darker brown, most 

 of the feathers with more or less distinct fulvous or bufty white 

 bars or spots, especially on the hind neck, where they form a 

 tolerably well-marked collar ; the plumes of the upper surface 

 mcsially black, forming either streaks or bars ; the crown very 

 broadly streaked, the buff spots here very tiuj', giving a minutely 

 spotted appeiirance to this part, inclining to white on the frontal 

 feathers ; on the nape a more or less concealed band of light-coloured 

 feathers, for the most part white, tinged with fulvous near the base, 

 and subterminally crossed with two or three zigzag lines of brown ; 

 scapulars greyer than the rest of the back, being irregularly mottled 

 or barred with greyish white on the outer web, many of the outer- 

 most entirely white externally, tipped with black and having one 

 or two wavy lines of dark brown ; quills brown, vermiculated like 

 the back, the least coverts somewhat rufescent, the greater and 

 median series washed with grey externally, some few feathers show- 

 ing large spots or bars of greyish white towards the tips of the 

 outer webs, the spurious quills externally notched with white ; 

 primary coverts sandy buff, barred with dark brown ; quills dark 

 brown, regularly barred with sandy rufous, inclining to bufl' on the 

 inner webs, tliese light bars represented on the outer webs by light 

 sandy buff, slightly inclining to white on the outer margin of the 

 secondaries, all of which are more or less obscured by brown vermi- 

 culations, the primaries very plainly notched with huffy white on 

 the outer web in chequered fashion, the innermost secondaries 



