104 Mr. J, H. Gurney on a 



PLATALEiE. 



Plataleidse. 



Herodiones. 



Ciconiidse. 

 Ardeidse. 



Steganopopes. 

 Phalacrocoracidse. 

 Sulidse. 

 Pelecanidfe. 

 Phaethontidie. 

 Fregatidse. 



To what extent the Diurnal Birds of Prey and the Owls 

 differ from the Herodiones and Steganopodes, and whether 

 there are sufficient grounds for placing them in a distinct 

 order, must be the subject of a future paper. 



IX, — On an apparently undescribed Species of Owl from 

 Anjouan Island, proposed to be called Scops capnodes. By 

 John Henry Gurney. 



The Norwich Museum has for some time possessed three 

 specimens of the Scops Owl inhabiting Anjouan Island, in the 

 Comoro group, which have hitherto been catalogued in the 

 collection under the head of Scops rutilus, Pucher. ; but my 

 attention has been recently called to certain differences, in 

 my opinion specific, between the Anjouan Scops and the 

 Madagascar Scops i^utUus. 



The Norwich Museum contains three Madagascar speci- 

 mens of Scops 7^utilus, and, through the kind intervention of 

 Professor Newton, I have had the opportunity of examining 

 four others, and also two of the Anjouan Scops, from the 

 Museum at Cambridge. 



I have thus had the opportunity of comparing five speci- 

 mens of Scops from Anjouan with seven from Madagascar, 

 and, as the result o£ this comparison, I find that in all the 



