SCOPS. 297 



email pointed, often subcruciform, white or fulvous spots, bordered 

 with dark brown ; quills brown, rufescent and paler on the outer 

 webs and at the tips, and with pale bars throughout ; tail-feathers 

 like the back and indistinctly barred ; lower parts pale rufous- 

 white, speckled with brown, especially on the breast; all feathers 

 with whitish shaft-stripes interrupted at short intervals by brown 

 spots. 



Bill bluish white ; cere pale bluish green ; irides deep brown ; 

 feet and claws bluish white {Davison). Tarsus feathered nearly 

 to the end. 



Length about 11; tail 4-8; wing 7'4; tarsus I'l ; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula. A specimen was obtained 

 by Gates at Malewoon, Southern Tenasserim, and another by 

 Davison at Meetan, S.E. of Moulmein. 



1178. Scops bakkamcBna. The Collared Scops Owl. 



Otus bakkamcena, Pennant, Indian Zool. p. 3, pi. iii (1769) ; Newton^ 



S. F. viii, p. 414. 

 Strix indica, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i, p. 289 (1788). 

 Strix lempiji, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 140 (1821). 

 Scops lettia, Hodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 176 (1836) ; Hume, N. ^ E. 



p. 67 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 85 ; Blyth f Wald. Birds Burm. 



p. 65 ; Inglis, S. F. v, p. 86 ; Oates, S. F. vii, p. 45 ; Hume, ibid. 



p. 357 ; id. Cat. no. 75 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 232 ; Oates, B. B. 



ii, p. 155 ; id. in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 104 ; Salvadori, 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 572 ; v, p. 558 ; vii, p. 375 : Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 22. 

 Scops malabaricus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S, xiii, pt. 2, p. 119 



(1845) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 94 (subsp.) ; mime, S. F. vii, 



pp. 34, 361 ; id. Cat. no. 75 quat. ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. .36 ; Btitler, 



ibid. p. 377 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 343 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 74 ; 



Oates in Hume's N. 8( E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 107. 

 Scops griseus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xiii, pt. 2, p. 119 (1845j. 

 Scops lettioides, Jerdon, Blyth, J. A.S.B. xiv, p. 182 (1845). 

 Scops lempiji, Blyth, Cat. p. 36 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 38 ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. ii, p. 91 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 35, 497 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 75 quint. ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 147 ; Hume, S. F. x, 



p. 183 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 156 ; id. in Himie's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. 



iii, p. 107. 

 Epliialtes lempiji, Horsf. ^- M. Cat. i, p. 71 ; Jerdon, B. 1. 1, p. 138 ; 



Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 256 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 347. 

 Ephialtes lettia, Hume, Rough Notes, p. 393. 

 Ephialtes griseus, Hume, t. c. p. 398 ; Anderson, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 26 ; 



Rainey, S. F. iii, p. 333. 

 Ephialtes malabaricus, Hume, t. c. p. 402. 

 Ephialtes jerdoni, Walden, A. M. N. H. (4) v, p. 417 (1870) ; id. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 112. 

 Scops bakhamuna, Hume, N. fy E. p. 69; id. S. F. v, p. 135; vii, 



p. 506 ; ix, p. 37 ; id. Cat. no. 75 ter ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 135 ; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 72 ; Oates in Humes N. (.^ E. 2nd ed. iii, 



p. 105 ; Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 179 ; Littledale, 



ibid. p. 196 ; Barnes, op. cit. iii, p. 222. 



