94 BUBONID/E. 



Adult. Above clear cinnamon rufous, nearly uniform, most of the feathers 

 \vith a narrow central shaft line of black, a little broader than on the crown ; 

 scapulars externally yellowish buff or pure white, with a black subterminal bar ; 

 wing coverts rufous like the back with the same dusky black shaft lines, 

 broader on the greater series, which are white at the tips of their external webs ; 

 the spurious quills externally whitish, broadly barred with dark brown ; pri- 

 mary coverts, cinnamon, with a spot of yellowish white near the tip of the 

 outer web, the inner web blackish brown ; quills dull cinnamon rufous with 

 faint cross-bars of brown, almost obsolete on the innermost secondaries, less dis- 

 tinct on the outer ones, but plainer on the primaries, many of the light inter- 

 spaces on the outer webs of the latter inclining to whitish ; tail cinnamon, the 

 centre feathers nearly uniform, with only faint indications of narrow blackish 

 cross-bars, these are broader and more distinct on the outer feathers, 

 the exterior ones having slight indications of wnitish spots on the light inter- 

 spaces ; lores white, the elongated bristly shafts blackish at tip ; over the eye a 

 patch of white feathers narrowly margined with black at their tips ; sides of 

 face cinnamon with silvery white shaft lines to the feathers ; behind the ear 

 coverts a distinct ruff of deep cinnamon feathers broadly terminated with 

 black ; plumes on the chin whitish ; chest cinnamon, some of the feathers 

 buffy white at the tips, with broad mesial streaks of black ; rest of under 

 surface of body for the most part white, broadly streaked down the centre with 

 black, barred with cinnamon and freckled and grizzled with zigzag lines 

 of blackish. Under tail coverts white, slightly washed with cinnamon at the 

 tips, and with few indications of a central dark brown streak. Under wing 

 coverts yellowish, those near the edge of the wing rufous mottled with brown. 

 Edge of wing white. Bill dusky horn ; feet fleshy brown. Iris bright yellow. 



Length 67 inches to 7-5 ; wing 5-3 to 57; tail 2-5; tarsus 0*910 ro 

 (Sharpe.) 



The above is a description by Mr. Sharpe, taken from a Nepaul skin collected 

 by Mr. Hodgson. 



Mr. Sharpe observes that some specimens show considerable differences, 

 principally on the breast and abdomen, both the Penang and Madras speci- 

 mens having the central black streaks very indistinct on the under-parts, while 

 they vary inter se in the mottling of the abdomen. Mr. Sharpens description 

 answers exactly to a specimen of Scops very near pennatus, now in the 

 Kurrachee Museum, collected at Kurrachee, except that the tibial and tarsal 

 plumes are unspotted white, also the under tail coverts ; another specimen has 

 the tibial and tarsal plumes rufous fawn, with faint indications of small brown 

 spots ; the primaries too have the outer webs broadly barred with yellowish 

 white and dark brown. 



Hab. India generally, ranging down the Malayan Peninsula as far as 

 Penang. Recorded from Madras, Penang, and Nepaul; also Sind, the Punjab, 



