lOG On a Scops Owl from Aajoium Island. 



Paris Museum as " varying in tlie wing from G to 080 

 inches." 



The following description was taken from one of the 

 specimens in the Cambridge Museum, which I may call 

 specimen A : — 



The upper surface of the head, including the ear-tufts, 

 which ai'e very slightly developed, is entirely brown, the 

 frontal feathers being blackish l)rown in the centre, but 

 freckled with a paler brown on the sides, the feathers of the 

 hinder head, nape, cheeks, and throat being finely cross- 

 barred with the same two shades of brown disposed alter- 

 nately, with some intermediate brown freckles on the nape, 

 and the lower portion of the disk being surrounded by a 

 black band. 



The mantle is cross-barred and freckled similarly to the 

 nape, but more coarsely on the lower scapulars, and more 

 finely on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the upper surface 

 of the rectrices is blackish brown, with pale brown freckles 

 on the lower and outer portions of the feather, these freckles 

 assuming the form of irregular transverse bars on the outer 

 rectrices. 



The primaries and secondaries are blackish brown, finely 

 freckled with lighter brown towards the end of the feather, 

 and with the outer webs slightl}^ marked on the external edge 

 Avith small notch-like spots of pale fulvous brown ; the ter- 

 tials resemble the secondaries in their general coloration, but 

 are more largely freckled with pale brown. 



The entire under surface is freckled like the mantle, but 

 more coarsely, and with a larger admixture of pale luteous 

 brown^ the shaft-marks of the feathers being black. 



Specimen B, also in the (^ambridge Museum, I'esembles A, 

 but is slightly darker throughout, with the exception of a 

 single white feather on the nape^ which is clearly abnormal. 



In this specimen the pale brown notch-like spots on the 

 external edge of the outer web of the primaries and secon- 

 daries are so small as to be almost obsolete. 



Specimens C, D, and E arc preserved in the Museum at 

 Norwich. 



