APPENDIX, 443: 
coverts are rufous-buff, and the longer scapulars, and a few of 
the feathers of the back, are a deep chocolate brown. 
The second stage is characteristically of a dark hair, or even’ 
at times umber-brown, darkest above, and chocolate-brown on the 
scapulars, with no pale bands on the wings or tips to the tail 
feathers, and with numerous narrow, transverse, irregular grey 
bars on the latter ; and with much brown mingled with the lower 
tail-coverts. . : a 
Some specimens show. traces of «thé. wing-bars, characteristic 
of the preceding stage, but the more adult of them show more 
or- less of a reddish -buff patch on the nape and pale margins to 
the lesser wing-coverts. | 
A good many which I suppose’ to be those nearest to the first 
form, besides showing traces of the wing-bars, have all the 
feathers of the lower abdomen narrowly tipped with dingy fulvous- 
white. Of 
That this is really the adult stage there can be no doubt; but 
even here the changes are most confusing, because one bird, for 
instance, having a most conspicuous orange-buff patch on the 
nape, has the whole of the upper tail-coverts a clear fulvous- 
white, as in the first stage; while another, though of a deeper 
brown, shows no trace of buff upon the nape, and has. the upper 
tail-coverts uniform blackish-brown, as in the adult. 
The wing-lining also varies very much in this stage. In some— 
and these by no means the most advanced—it is altogether deep 
brown, as in the perfect adult, while in others, by no means the 
least advanced, it is a rufous-buff, or a rufous-buff mingled with 
dark brown ; im one, and that a bird showing the incipient 
orange-buff head, they are precisely as in .the second stage ; the 
lesser and median lower wing-coverts being uniform pale hair- 
ele and the larger lower wing-coverts white.—Hume, '“ Rough 
Notes.” 
Scops sunia, Hodgqs. 
74bis.—Ephialtes pennatus, Hodgs. (Rufous phase) Jerdon’s 
Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 187. 
Dimensions same as S. pennatus, Hodgs. 
Upper parts uniform bright golden chestnut red, with black 
shafts, inconspicuous on the back, more distinct on the forehead, 
ear-plumes, and shoulders of the wings ; outer edge of scapulars 
whitish ; disc rufous, with some of the feathers white shafted ; 
ruff deep brown, with the outer feathers black tipped, or black ; 
beneath, deeply tinged with the hue of the back,-but with more 
or less white on the belly, and under tail-coverts ; the breast and 
sides of the belly with central brownish black streaks, the latter 
with transverse pencillings ; four faint bars on the inner webs of 
the tail feathers, and the primaries also indistinctly barred with 
dusky or mottled brown. _The young bird has all the feathers 
duller red, more black shafted, and there is much white on the 
