15. Asio. 243 



Pseudoscop3 orramniicus, Kaup, Igis, 1843, p. 7G9 ; id. Confr. Orn 

 my2, p. 11.3; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 231 ; Scl. 4- Salv. N mend. Av. 

 JSeutr. p. 110. 



Scops grammicus, Sp. Consp. Av. i. p. 46; Strickl. Orn. Siin. p. 205 



Utus grauimicus, Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 50. 



Adult female. General colour above sandy buff, transversely ver- 

 raiculated with dark browtj,more distinctly on the back and scapular 

 feathers, some of which arc mesially streaked with dark brown, some 

 ot the outermost rather more broadly barred with sandy colour, 

 but not exhibiting any trace of wliite or buff spots ; head and neck 

 rather lighter sandy colour, the transverse black lines very re,<nilar 

 especially on the ear-tufts, which are coloured like the rest of the 

 head, but are nearly uniform rufous on their inner webs ; entire 

 facial aspect foxy red, the hindcrmost of the ear-coverts whitish, 

 tipped with black, merging in the ruff, which is composed of sandv- 

 buff feathers, black at tip and at base ; the stiff gular feathers sandy 

 rufous, streaked and indistinctly barred with black ; chin-feathers 

 huffy white ; rest of the under surface deep sandy rufous, with foint 

 indications of dusky vermiculations of brown, the abdominal plumes 

 more or less verging on white and showing very Httle of the mesial 

 black streaks which are so distinct on the breast-feathers; leg- 

 feathers uniform tawny buff, as also the under tail-coverts ; under 

 wing-coverts buff, slightly washed with sandv rufous, the lower 

 series black, with fulvous bases, forming a bar across the wing, and 

 resembling the inner lining of the quiUs, which are fulvescent to- 

 wards the base of the inner web, on which they are broadly barred 

 with black ; upper wing-coverts resembling the back, and very 

 coarsely vermiculated with dark brown, the sandy-buff bars being 

 pretty apparent here and there, and especially distinct on the outer 

 web of the spurious quills ; primary- coverts dark brown, irregularly 

 barred across with sandy buff'; quills banded alternately for their 

 entire length with blackish brown and sandy buff, these bars less 

 distinct on the secondaries, the light interspaces obscured with dark 

 brown vermiculations, especially the innermost, which consequently 

 resemble the back ; tail sandy buff, barred across with dark brown, 

 about eleven bars being traceable on the centre feathers, the inter- 

 spaces more or less mottled with vermiculations of brown, the exte- 

 rior rectrix paler and more fulvous, crossed with about thirteen 

 brown bars; cere blackish grey; biU pale blue-grey; feet dull lead- 



cross bands on each feather; the lower parts white, on each feather a broad 

 dark brown shaft-stnpe. The imder tail-coverts piu-e white. Winm on the 

 inner sides blac-kish, with from three to five whitish pronged bands and spots 

 larsi rustj yellowish white, with rusty yellow cross lines. The bristle-feathers 

 of the lorum white, with black shafts. The stripe over the eve dirtv white ex- 

 tending to the ear-horns, which are not very well distinguished. 'Veil wiiite 

 each feather with rusty yellow, black-margined, shaft-spots. 



J^Bimens. Head 70 mm.; bill from the root 20, from the gape 34 mm. ; wing 

 Jot) mm.; tarsus 60mm; middle toe without the nail 39 mm. ; left ear-hole 

 (taken on a stuffed .specimen) 14, right ear-hole 22 mm. Ion". 

 "Hab. Mexico (Wurzburg Museum)." ^ 



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