SCOPS. 



colored like the back, the bases dark brown, the tips chocolate rufous, 

 with rather more distinct vermiculations of black, the spots very plain, and 

 forming notches on the outer web of some of the greater series ; primary coverta 

 exactly like the other, brown at base, rufescent at tips, but without the 

 light spots; quills dark bro\vn, nearly uniform on the inner web, and 

 chocolate rufous at the tips of the primaries, and on the outer webs of 

 the secondaries, which are minutely notched with fulvous ; the primaries 

 very distinctly chequered with white on the outer webs, the innermost second- 

 aries spotted with rufous buff, resembling the scapulars ; tail dark brown 

 near the base, crossed with about six bars of dull rufous, these becoming 

 obsolete towards the tips of the feathers, which are rufous chocolate, very 

 finely vermiculated with black ; the outer feather externally notched with 

 fulvous, and all the feathers of the wings and tail barred with fulvous on the 

 inner web, especially towards the base ; forehead and feathers over the fore 

 part of the eye creamy white, narrowly tipped with brown ; loral plumes rufous, 

 the shafts ending in black hair-like bristles, barred obscurely with black ; 

 ear coverts rufous chocolate, barred and tipped with black cheeks fulvous, all 

 the feathers tipped, and some of them barred across with dull black j general 

 colour of under surface rufous sandy obscured with grey, and finely vermicu- 

 lated with blackish cross lines, the bases of the feathers, especially those of the 

 flanks, strongly rufescent, broadly barred with fulvous, inclining to white near 

 the tips of most of the feathers ; and before this whitish tip, appears generally 

 a slight indication of a diamond-shaped spot of black, evidently the remains 

 of a streak ; all the above markings, though distinct on the abdomen and 

 flanks, are less plainly characterized on the chest, which is consequently more 

 dusky ; leg-feathers orange tawny, narrowly barred with dark brown ; under 

 wing coverts fulvous, slightly marked with brown and spotted with sandy buff 

 near the edge of the wing, which is whitish; the lower series dark brown, 

 fulvescent at base, resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are dark 

 brown, notched on the outer web and barred on the inner with fulvous. Total 

 length 7-5 inches ; wing 5-45 ; tail 3-2 ; tarsus 1-15. (Mus. Ind. Calc.) 



Obs. Another specimen, very kindly lent me by Mr. Hume, differs consider- 

 ably from the one described. It is not such a deep rufous in color, and is 

 much more thickly spotted both above and below, recalling Scops spilocephalus ; 

 the under surface is much paler and greyer, the white bars very large and 

 distinct and extending even on to the chest. Total length 7-5 inches ; wing 

 5-6; tail 3-2 ; tarsus 1*15. 



Hab. Andaman Islands, Nepaul. Mr. Sharpe again observes that, " it has 

 been suggested by Mr. Hume, that the bird from the Andamans, named 

 Scops modestus by Lord Walden, must be the young bird of 6". Ballt, and 

 I confess that until I examined and compared the types, I entertained a 

 similar impression. Lord Walden, however, having kindly lent me the original 

 specimen of S. modes lus for examination, I have come to the conclusion 



