;jl2 ADDENDA. 



coverts uniform blackish brown ; quills brown, externally notched 

 and mottled with sandy rufous or white ; the secondaries blackish, 

 everywhere mottled and vermiculated with sandy rufous like the 

 back ; tail brown, copiouslj- mottled and vermiculated with pale 

 sandy rufous, clearer at the tip, the outer feathers vermiculated on 

 the outer web and narrowly banded on the inner one with sandy 

 rufous ; lores and a broad band over the fore part of the eye white, 

 the feathers of the former very full and having the shafts produced 

 into black bristles, most of these feathers edged with rufous brown ; 

 plumes round the eye chestnut, with narrow whitish shaft-streaks ; 

 ear-coverts whitish, with concentric bars of rufous and black ; ear- 

 tufts coloured like the head ; facial ruff white, many of the upper fea- 

 thers behind the ear-coverts barred with tawny and more narrowly 

 with brown cross lines, the lower part of the ruff under the chin 

 white, with a few narrow blackish cross lines ; chin-feathers pure 

 white ; general aspect of under surface sandy rufous, many of the 

 feathers with a distinct central streak of black, all the feathers ver- 

 miculated with dark brown bars and broadly barred with wliite, the 

 latter prevailing on the flank-feathers, which arc almost entirely 

 white with sandy-rufous bars ; the centre of the abdomen pure white ; 

 the under tail-coverts white, washed with tawny, and mesially 

 streaked with black ; leg-feathers orange ; under wing-coverts buify 

 white, some of the outermost washed with tawny and mottled with 

 brown markings, the lower series tipped with ashy brown, and thus 

 resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are uniform ashy 

 below, inclining to fulvous near the base of the iuner web, the secon- 

 daries internally barred with fulvous ; bill horn-brown ; toes yel- 

 lowish. Total length 7'5 inches, wing 5-25, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-2. 

 (^Mus. Brem.) 



This Scops Owl is perfectly intermediate between the S. giu group 

 and S. spUocepludus. It has the mottled upper surface of the latter 

 bird, but differs from this species in ha%'ing stripes on the under 

 surface. The flanks in >S.f/iit, cnpensis, and allies are white streaked 

 with black and crossed with narrow zigzag cross lines of black ; but 

 in S. lei(C02ms the flanks are white with broad sandy rufous cross 

 bars. The absence of streaks on the upper surface is also a character ; 

 and the ruff is white, with narrow black bars, but there is no black 

 ring marking the ruff as in S. giu. 



The following modification in the synoptic table of Scops becomes 

 necessary : — 



rt". Quills barred below witli 

 lighter vermiculations, 

 especially towards the 

 tips ; leg-feathers mi- 

 nutely spotted with 

 black ; upper surface of 

 body always with di- 

 stinct remains of 

 streaks ; flanks always 

 mottled with minute 

 wavv vermiculations 



