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on the flanks and abdomen, on which parts are tolerably distinct 

 bars of white ; log-feathei's bright orange rufous, with a few narrow 

 brown bars on the tibia ; under tail-coverts white, barred across 

 with sandy rufous ; under wing-coverts fulvous, thickly mottled with 

 brown near the outer edge of the wing, which is white, the lower 

 series dark brown, like the inner lining of the quills ; bill yellowish ; 

 feet yellowish, claws horn-colour. Total length 10 inches, wing 6-8, 

 tail 4*1, tarsus 1-55, bare part of latter 0-85. (Mus. Salvin and God- 

 man.) 



Obs. My description is taken from a specimen obtained at Calobre, 

 in Veragua, by Arce, and kindly lent to me by Mr. Salvin. He has 

 at the same time lent me another specimen, obtained by the same 

 collector in Costa Rica. This latter bird differs in several points 

 from the one described, ha\*ing more of the general aspect of Scoj^s 

 spiJoceplmhis of the Himalayas ; it is clear sandy in colour, the black 

 forming regular bars across the plumage, the subterminal one very 

 broad, and giving the appearance of large black spots to the upper 

 surface ; feathers of the crown centred with black, the sandy- 

 coloured interspaces forming very distinct spots, the ear-tufts being 

 still lighter, and barred across with whitish ; the white spots on the 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer webs of primaries very distinct, 

 as also are the white bars on the lower surface, many of them being 

 apparent also on the chest-feathers ; the (|uiUs barred with ashy 

 brown on their inner webs, inclining to sandy buff on the secon- 

 daries. Total length 9-5 inches, wing G-S, tail 4, tarsus 1-45, bare 

 part of latter 0-65. 



21. Scops cristatus. 



La Chouette a aigi-ette blauche, Levaill. Ois. d'Afi: i. pi. 43. 



Supercilious Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii p. 63. 



Strix cristata, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 207 (ex Leradl.). 



Stiix superciliosa, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 250. 



Bubo griseatus, Cm. Regne An. i. p. 344 ; Schl. Miis. P.-B. Oti, 



p. 16; Kemp, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 2.38; Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 0. 

 Syrnium griseatum, Less. Traite, p. 113. 

 l^opbostrix griseata, Less. Cmnpl. Ruf. i. p. 261. 

 Lophostrix cristata, Graij, Cat. Accipitr. Brit. Mus. 1844, p. 47 ; Bp. 



Ccmsp. i. p. 4-5; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 115; Scl. ^- Scdv. 



Nomencl. Ar. p. 117; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 325. 

 Ephialtes cristatus, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 38 ; id. Cat. Accipitr. B. M. 



1848, p. 98. 

 Scops cristata, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 205 ; Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 47. 



Adidt female. Above deep and slightly reddish chocolate-brown, 

 the crown of the head decidedly tinged with rufous, all the upper 

 surface obsoletely vermiculated with blackish ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts strongly washed with rufous, and irreg-ularly studded with 

 spots of white of unequal size, those near the outer base of the sca- 

 pulars and on the least wing-coverts tinged with yeUow ; primary- 

 coverts thickly vermiculated with blackish, rufescent only at the 

 tips ; quills deep brown, externally dull sandy, mai-ked with a few 

 irregularly shaped spots of yellowish buff, inclining to rufous on the 



