72 BUBONINA. 
Every feather has a narrow central dark-brown stripe; some of 
the outer scapulars have inconspicuous patches of buff on their 
outer webs, and the ground color of the feather on each side of 
the crown, immediately above the eye, is slightly paler; but, 
beyond this, the whole of the upper plumage above described is 
singularly uniform in tint and appearance, and is absolutely de- 
void of those white spots and blackish-brown or buff dashes and 
streaks so characteristic of the other Indian species; the pri- 
maries are pale dingy-buff, with broad transverse brown bars, which, 
towards the tips, are with the ground color, mottled and freckled 
over, the ground color with brown and the bars with dingy-ful- 
vous ; nearer the base of the feather, the light bars are on the ex- 
terior webs pure pale buff, while the dark bars continue freckled 
as already described ; on the inner webs, the dark bars are nearly 
uniform and unmottled, while the light bars are pure and unmot- 
tled towards the edge of the webs, and suffused with brown towards 
the shafts ; the tertiaries and the tips of the secondaries approxi- 
mate closely to the plumage of the back and coverts ; of the breast 
and abdomen, the ground color is similar to that of the 
upper parts, but the brown powdering is coarser, so that more 
of the ground coloring is seen, and the dark-brown central shaft 
stripes are somewhat broader towards the vent; on the flanks 
and lower tail-coverts, the ground color becomes almost pure 
white, and the brown powderimg very sparse, while the shafts 
stripes are reduced, as on the back and wing-coverts, to well 
marked dark lines; the short, dense tibial and tarsal plumes are 
brownish-white, each little feather with its dark central shaft stripe; 
the axillaries and wing-lining are cream colored, or yellowish- 
white, entirely unstreaked and unmottled. 
Not much is known concerning the Striated Scops Owl. It was 
named by Mr. Hume, after the Revd. H. Bruce, that gentleman 
having procured the first specimen near Ahmednagar; others 
have since been procured in different parts of the Deccan, Messrs. 
Blandford, Doig and myself procured it in Sind, the former at 
Oomercote, Mr. Doig and myself at Hyderabad, where it frequents 
dense plantations of young babool trees. I found it nesting on the 
Khoja Amran mountains in South Afghanistan. It will doubtless 
turn up both in Rajpootana and Guzerat. 
Scops bakkamuna, /Forst. 
75ler.—Butler, Sind; Stray Feathers, Vol, VII, p. 175; Aboo, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IIT, p. 450. 
Length, 7°88 to 9; expanse, 20°5 to 21°5 ; wing, 5°6 to 6°75; tail 
from vent, 2°5 to 3:37 ; tarsus, 1:06 to 1:19 ; bill from gape, 0°88 to 
0-94. 
Toes and claws very pale greyish-brown, the latter darker at the 
points, and not much curved; soles creamy-white; pads and 
papille much developed and soft, scutellation obscure ; three or 
four transverse quasi-scales at the end of each toe ; interior ridge 
