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[The male had the iris black ; bill light straw-yellow ; 

 feet darker straw-yellow. I niet with it at about 3000 feet 

 in the scrubby jungle on the lower spurs of Kina Balu. The 

 female bird was obtained at about the same elevation and in 

 precisely similar situations. I do not think it goes higher 

 up the mountain. The first bird was obtained under curious 

 circumstances. One of my hunters having foand a flock of 

 Staphidia everetti and other small birds in the jungle^ singled 

 out one of them and brought it down with a walking-stick gun. 

 To his astonishment this large Owl came tumbling down 

 along with the little Staphidia. The man had not seen the 

 Owl in the thick jungle, and there is no doubt that the small 

 birds had been mobbing the Bubo.'] 



Suborder STRIGES. 

 Heteroscops, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi 'Scops' dicto_, sed fasciis auricularibus 

 absentibus, et facie crinibus tenuibus ornata distinguen- 

 dum. Typus sit 



22. Heteroscops luci^. (Plate III.) 



Scops lucia, Sharpe^ Ibis, 1888, p. 478. 



Adult female. General colour above tawny rufous, mottled 

 with coarse black vermicnlations, giving here and there a 

 spotted appearance ; on the binder mantle some large ovate 

 fulvous marks, not sufficiently indicated to form a " wig^^; 

 scapulars externally yellowish white, forming a broad streak, 

 with a black spot near the end of the shaft ; upper tail -coverts 

 rather more regularly barred with black ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, but the black vermicnlations on the median series 

 more sj^arsely distributed ; bastard-wing blackish internally, 

 with a chequered pattern of broad black and tawny-bufi" bars 

 on the outer web ; primary- coverts rufous, with small black 

 vermicnlations and feebly indicated bars of black on the 

 outer web ; primaries chequered with black and tawny- bnff 

 bars on the outer web, the black more or less mixed with 

 tawny buff ; inner webs blackish ; secondaries rufous, vermi- 

 culated with black, scarcely forming any bars ; tail-feathers 



