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There is a single specimen only of this species in the British Museum from 

 the Eastern Ghauts, collected by the late Dr. Jerdon and named by him 

 Scops pennatus; but Mr. Sharpe has separated it from among his large series of 

 Scops. He says, it is of the Scops gin group and closely allied to S. Malay anus 

 resembling it in the dusky grey ear coverts, but distinguished by the absence 

 of the white ocellations on the hind neck and of the bars on the centre tail 

 feathers, and more especially by its rufous quills. The following is his descrip- 

 tion of the type in the British Museum, 



Adult. General aspect of upper surface more uniform than is usual in 

 species of this genus, being of a dusky greyish brown, the feathers being black- 

 ish in the centre, but scarcely to be called streaked, excepting on the fore part 

 of the crown, where the black shafts are very broad and distinct, all the feathers 

 of the upper surface so finely pencilled with dark brown as to appear almost 

 uniform, with here and there a few sandy-coloured mottlings, more distinct 

 on the head, to which they impart a slightly spotted appearance ; the collar on 

 the hind neck very distinct, some of the feathers being barred with fulvous and 

 crossed with narrow bars of blackish ; on the scapulars the blackish cross lines 

 are a little more coarsely defined than on th back, washed with orange buff, and 

 having the outer web pure white, tipped with black, forming a conspicuous- 

 shoulder patch ; wing coverts greyish like the back, the vermiculations very 

 faint and often obsolete on the greater series, which have rather large white 

 spots on the outer web ; the median coverts coarsely vermiculated with sandy 

 buff ; the feathers with blackish shaftstreaks ; the least series rufous with obscure 

 blackish cross vermiculations ; the outermost of the greater series, and the pri- 

 mary coverts strongly rufescent, almost chestnut in tone, the latter finely vermi- 

 culated with blackish ; innermost secondary quills colored like the back, and 

 finely vermiculated in the same manner, their centres streaked with dusky 

 blackish along the shaft ; the rest of the quills rufous, barred with dusky brown ; 

 these bars are more or less vermiculated ; the inner webs almost entirely 

 dusky brown barred with pale rufous inclining to yellowish on the inner web \ 

 the rufous bars on the outer web of the primaries inclining to white, and pro- 

 ducing somewhat a chequered appearance ; upper tail coverts exactly like the 

 back ; the centre tail feathers likewise strongly resembling the upper surface 

 inasmuch as they are without any distinct trace of cross bars ; the outer feathers 

 dark brown, vermiculated with sandy rufous, and crossed with seven bars of 

 rufous ; the subterminal one very indistinct and lost in the vermiculations at the 

 tips, the light bars inclining to white on the outer edge of the external web ; 

 loral plumes whitish ; the shafts black, and produced into long hair-like bristles ; 

 feathers over the eye buffy white, tipped with blackish ; sides of face dusky grey, 

 indistinctly varied with fine cross lines of dull brown ; behind the ear coverts 

 a tolerably distinct ruff of orange-buff, and the feathers broadly tipped with 

 black, this ruff extending across the throat, but the feathers here finely barred 

 with blackish ; chin feathers dull white ; chest dull orange buff j the feathers 



