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vermiculations, and relieved by bars or diamond-shaped spots of 

 biiffy white ; scapulars with distinct spots of white on the outer 

 web ; the greater -ning-coverts also with some distinct diamond- 

 shaped spots of white ; quills brown, externally sandy rufous, lighter 

 than the back, the primaries with a few spots of buffy white on the 

 outer web ; the secondaries entirely sandy rufous at the tip, with a 

 few obscure rufous bands throughout the length of the feathers ; 

 upper tail- coverts coloured like the back, many of them barred 

 across with white or buffy white ; tail dark brown, sandy rufous at 

 tip, with more or less distinct rufous bands on the rest of the 

 feathers ; lores very full, buffy white, washed with rufous near the 

 tip, the black shaft-streaks produced; frontal plumes and a few 

 feathers over the fore part of the eye whitish, tipped and narrowly 

 barred with brown ; plumes round the eye rufous brown ; ear- 

 coverts sandy rufous, mesiaUy streaked with buffy white ; ruff ap- 

 parently sandy rufous, narrowly barred with black, and inclining 

 to buff near the base ; some of the lower plumes tipped with white 

 and subterminaUy barred with black ; under surface of body sandy 

 rufous, with narrow zigzag cross lines of black, most of the feathers 

 subtcrminally barred with white or tipped with a large diamond- 

 shaped spot of white, the flank-feathers distinctly barred with 

 whitish ; tarsi very scantily plumed, bare for more than the lower 

 haK, the plumes on the upper portion sandy rufous, with tiny bars 

 of dark brown ; under wing-coverts white, broadly barred with 

 black or brown, especially distinct on the edge of the wing ; bill 

 yellow ; feet dusky, claws dark brown. Total length 8-8 inches, 

 wing 6*35, tail 3'6, tarsus 1'3. 



Hah. Pelew Islands. 



This species is extremely like Scops lalU from the Andamans, a 

 species which, through Mr. Hume's kindness, I am able to compare 

 with it. It is, in fact, a large edition of it, but is apparently to be 

 distinguished by its dark brown claws and -big feet. Like S. halli 

 it has a very bare leg ; but the exact amount of feathering is rendered 

 a little difficult to determine by reason of the condition of the spe- 

 cimen, which has been mounted after having been preserved in 

 spirits. This fact accounts for the absence of ear-tufts (which, 

 however, I can distinguish a little). Mr. Keulemans's plate in the 

 Journal of the Museum Godeffroy does not represent the bird 

 well, as, like the original describers, he has mistaken it for a Ninox 

 or Noctua ; and the peculiar feathers which he has drawn on the 

 chest are, I beHeve, only two ordinary plumes of the ruff, rendered 

 conspicuous by the falling off of all the other overlying feathers in 

 the specimen. 



Page 108. Scops brasilianus. 

 s. Ad. sk, Huiro, valley of Sta. Ana, W. Peru. II. Whitely, Esq. [P.]. 



Page 129. Sumia ulula. 



a. 2 skeleton. Sweden. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. Skeleton. Sweden. Zoological Society. 



