156 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



537. SCOPS LEMPIJI. 



HORSFIELD'S SCOPS-OWL. 



Strix lempiji, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 140. Scops lempiji, Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 19 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 91 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 38 ; 

 Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 35, 497 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 83 ; Bingham, S. F. 

 ix. p. 147; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 370; Hume, 8. F. x. p. 183 (note). 



Description. Male and female. Very similar in general appearance to 

 S. lettia in the fulvous phase ; but the fulvous throughout very much 

 deeper and brighter ; the black marks on the upper plumage much larger 

 and more pronounced ; size smaller. 



This species, according to Mr. Sharpe, has also a brown phase, but never 

 a grey phase like S. lettia. 



This small Owl may be recognized from the preceding, to which it bears 

 a close resemblance, by the intense rufous colour of its plumage and by 

 the junction of the toes with the tarsus being bare of feathers. 



Horsfield's Scops-Owl is sparingly distributed over Pegu and Tenas- 

 serim. From the former Division Mr. Hume records specimens from 

 Rangoon and Thayetmyo, and in the latter Mr. Davison found it generally 

 distributed in the better-wooded tracts. Capt. Bingham states that it is 

 common in the Thoungyeen valley. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula and is found in Sumatra, Bangka, 

 Java and Borneo. 



Capt. Bingham obtained the eggs of this species in Tenasserim in 

 March. 



538. SCOPS SAGITTATUS. 



THE LARGE MALACCAN SCOPS-OWL. 



Ephialtes sagittatus, Cass. Journ. Acad. Philad. ii. p. 96, pi. 12. Scops sagit- 

 tatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 98 ; Gates, S. F. v. p. 247 ; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 35 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 83. 



Description. Male and female. The whole upper plumage a rather 

 rich chestnut ; the wings barred on the inner webs with brown, and the 

 tail irregularly banded with the same ; each feather of the upper body- 

 plumage with small arrow-head fulvous marks in the centre and some 

 narrow wavy black lines across ; the forehead for a depth of nearly an 

 inch, a broad supercilium and the inner webs of most of the feathers of 

 the ear-tufts white; the shafts of the feathers of the forehead nearly 

 black ; the tips of the tufts and the top of the head a darker chestnut 



