1878.] THE ISLAND OF MUSTDANAO (S.W.)- 633 



14. Scops everetti, sp. n. 



[Zamboanga, ? , April : iris warm brown ; bill pale greenish leaden, nearly white ; feet 

 whitish grey ; claws dark grey, d , April : iris deep brown ; feet whitish.] 



Mr. Everett has sent three examples of a species of Sco2:>s, which may be described as being 

 a large form of Scops lempiji as it occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rich brown colouring 

 of the Javan species ; the same broad dark-brown mark in the form of a parallelogram on the 

 head and nape ; the same pale-coloured forehead, stripe above each eye and round the nape, and 

 the broad dark-brown stripe leading from behind the eye, and mcluding most of the ear-tufts. 

 In the Zamboanga species (as represented in Mr. Everett's series) there are no pale uniform 

 tawny or fulvous scapulars. Underneath, the markings differ from those of the Javan bird by 

 being more confused, and by the absence of regular dark-brown cross markings on the abdominal 

 plumes. The general colouring of the under surface is of a ruddier brown. 



Dimensions : — 



6 . . . . 

 ? . . . . 



Mr. Sharpe, to whom I submitted two of the specimens, has obliged me with the following 

 observations : — " Your Owl is of the S. lempiji group, having that peculiar light streak on tlie 

 sides of the crown, running onto the ear-tufts ; but underneath it is quite aberrant, and verges 

 more towards the Moluccan .S'. leucospilus section. At the same time I expect it will come very 

 near Scops wnhrafilis, Swinhoe." 



Mr, Gurney writes, "The Owl is new to me, and different to any that we have here." 



15. Thriponax javensis (28). 

 [Zamboanga. d , March : iris yellow.] 



The white at the tips of the primaries is unusually developed in the specimens from Zam- 

 boanga. 



16. Chkysocolaptes lucidus (32). 



Chrysocolaptes macuUceps, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 314, t. xlvi. fig. 2. 



[Zamboanga, 2 , May : iris crimson.] 



An example (marked a female) wears the plumage of C. macuUceps, as described and 

 figured by Mr. Sharpe. 



17. YuNGiPicus VALiDiROSTRis (35 partim). 



Picus nanus. Vigors, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 197. '^^ p.^gS!^^' 



Ficiis mlidirostris, Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 64. no. 305 ; J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 805. 

 [Zamboanga, <s ? , May : iris crimson ^ ; bill black ; mandible lead-grey ; feet olive.] 

 When writing on Picus maculatus, Scopoli (Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 148) *, 1 stated that the titles I 

 then brought together were treated as synonyms on the assumption that the islands of Luzon, 



* {^Antea, p. 31.5.— Ed.] 



