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and rounded, the outermost feathers being about 1 in. shorter 

 than the central; the 4th and 5th remiges nearly equal, and 

 longest in the wing. Eye about 1 in. in diameter; iris bright 

 orange-yellow ; skin round the eye broad, and purplish brown. 

 Bill pale dingy greenish yellow, blackish on the apical half of the 

 upper mandible, but not so at the tip. Inside of mouth pale fleshy 

 king's-yellow. Tongue broad, fleshy, and notched at the tip. 

 Legs of a dusky yellow, covered with small hexagonal scales, and 

 a few broad scutella at the end of the toes ; the soles rough, and 

 covered with pointed asperities ; outer toe reversible ; claws bluish 

 black, with pale yellowish bases, not much curved, and very blunt 

 from use. Ear oval, ^ in. in length, exposing the internal aperture 

 in the half farthest from the eye. Feathery horns not very large 

 or prominent. 



The oesophagus starts from the glottis very wide, gradually 

 narrowing to -| in., then for \~ in. becoming only J- in. in width. 

 The proventriculus follows (length li in., largest diameter I) : 

 gizzard 1^ in. long, somewhat conical, thick and hard; inside 

 lining thick and yellow, with broad ruga; ; empty. Cseca situated 

 2^ in. from anus; right caecum 4f, left 3f in. in length, both 

 bulging at their extremities into large sacs. Intestine in toto 

 44 inches long. 



10. Scops ?*. Cantonese, " /Se-cAee-yin^." 



This pretty Horned Owl was brought to me alive at Canton, 

 and, fi'om the bareness of its breast and belly, had evidently been 

 caught in the nest. It was very tame, and used to aflbrd amuse- 

 ment to spectators by the odd way in which it lowered its head, 

 swinging to and fro with expanded wing and ruffled feathers, 

 while its disproportionately large dark eyes glared at the finger 

 pointed towards it, and the bill continually snapped. In the day- 

 time, when undisturbed, it remained in easy repose ; but at night 

 it flapped about in its place of confinement, and vainly sought 

 hard to force a passage through the bars. 



In the spring of 1859, my friend Mr. Holt, at Foochow, sent 

 me two specimens of the same species from that place, but they 

 appeared somewhat larger in size than the present one. 



* Probably Scops lempiji{}lorsi.), but rather dark in plumage. — P. L. S. 



