586 
As far as is yet known, this species is confined to Nepaul 
and Sikhim. I cannot learn that it has ever been procured in 
Kumaon; but I have recently been informed that it has been 
killed near Cherapoonjee, but as I liave not seen the specimen, 
I cannot vouch for the fact. Mr. Blyth remarks that it is A, 
Javanensis, and not the present species, as Mr. Finlayson’s 
Manuscript notes, quoted in Horsfield’s Catalogue, assert, that 
is common in the Indian islands and Siam. 
No. 74. Ephialtes Pennatus.* Wopeson. 
Tue Inpi1an Scors Owt. 
The Indian species of Scops Owls are, as Kaup justly 
remarks, exceedingly difficult to discriminate, and my collection 
* The following are the dimensions and description of a specimen in the 
rufous stage. 
Dimensions. Length, 8°25; expanse, 15°5; wing, 5°7; third and fourth 
primaries longest ; first 1-1, and the second 0°3 shorter; tail, 2°56; tarsus, 
1:0; mid. toe to root of claw, 0°8; its claw straight, 0°39 ; hind toe, 0°39 ; 
its claw, 0°32; inner toe, 0°65 ; its claw straight, 0°4; bill straight, from — 
edge of cere, 0°5; from gape, 0°8; width at gape, 0°65; height at margin 
of cere, 0°32; length of cere, 0°32 ; closed wings reach to end of tail; lower 
tail coverts fall short of end of tail by 0°7. 
Description, The legs and feet dingy fleshy ; irides, yellow ; bill, green- 
ish horny, and yellowish on lower mandible. 
Plumage. he prevailing colour is a very bright chestnut, a few of the 
feathers on the forehead and above the eye, are greyish white, and the loral 
bristles are white, tipped with chestnut and black, a few of the feathers of 
the crown have the shafts dark brown, one row of the exterior scapulars are 
tipped blackish brown, and have the outer webs yellowish white. The pri- 
maries which are of a duller and paler chestnut towards the tips, have the 
outer webs above the tips broadly barred with yellowish white and dark 
brown ; the brown bars being, if I may so term it, hollow, namely dark at 
their margins, and chestnut coloured or buffy inside. The inner webs are 
mottled and barred with dusky and yellowish fawn, the secondaries and terti- 
aries are more or less barred, irregularly and cloudily about the tips. The tail 
chesnut like the rest, though somewhat paler than the back, with four or 
five, ill-defined, narrow, dusky, transverse bars. The edge ofthe wing at the 
carpal joint is white; the outer webs of one or two of the feathers of the 
winglet are white, barred brown and chesnut. The elvin is whitish, the whole 
of the throat, neck, and ruff, chesnut like the upper parts, only one or two 
of the feathers of the ruff broadly dark shafted towards the tips. Feathers 
of the breast and sides, chesnut, dark shafted at the tips where also they are 
mottled and freckled with pure white, The whole of the feathers of the 
abdomen, flanks, and vent, with dark shaft stripes, and with delicately mottled 
and freckled, chesnut and rufous brown, transverse bars upon a pure white 
