72 BUBONIN.E. 



Every feather has a narrow central dark-brown stripe ; some of 

 the outer scapulars have inconspicuous patches of buff on their 

 outer webs, and the ground color of the feather on each side of 

 the crown, immediately above the eye, is slightly paler ; but, 

 beyond this, the whole of the upper plumage above described is 

 singularly uniform in tint and appearance, and is absolutely de- 

 void of those white spots and blackish-brown or buff dashes and 

 streaks so characteristic of the other Indian species ; the pri- 

 maries are pale dingy-buff, with broad transverse brown bars, which, 

 towards the tips, are with the ground color, mottled and freckled 

 over, the ground color with brown and the bars with dingy-ful- 

 vous ; nearer the base of the feather, the light bars are on the ex- 

 terior webs pure pale buff, while the dark bars continue freckled 

 as already described ; on the inner webs, the dark bars are nearly 

 uniform and unmottled, while the light bars are pure and unmot- 

 tled towards the edge of the webs, and suffused with brown towards 

 the shafts ; the tertiaries and the tips of the secondaries approxi- 

 mate closely to the plumage of the back and coverts ; of the breast 

 and abdomen, the ground color is similar to that of the 

 upper parts, but the brown powdering is coarser, so that more 

 of the ground coloring is seen, and the dark-brown central shaft 

 stripes are somewhat broader towards the vent ; on the flanks 

 and lower tail-coverts, the ground color becomes almost pure 

 white, and the brown powdering very sparse, while the shafts 

 stripes are reduced, as on the back and wing-coverts, to well 

 marked dark lines ; the short, dense tibial and tarsal plumes are 

 brownish-white, each little feather with its dark central shaft stripe ; 

 the axillaries and wing-lining are cream colored, or yellowish- 

 white, entirely unstreaked and unmottled. 



Not much is known concerning the Striated Scops Owl. It was 

 named by Mr. Hume, after the Revd. H. Bruce, that gentleman 

 having procured the first specimen near Ahmednagar ; others 

 have since been procured in different parts of the Deccan. Messrs. 

 Blandford, Doig and myself procured it in Sind, the former at 

 Oomercote, Mr. Doig and myself at Hyderabad, where it frequents 

 dense plantations of young babool trees. I found it nesting on the 

 Khoja Amran mountains in South Afghanistan. It will doubtless 

 turn up both in Rajpootana and Guzerat. 



Scops bakkamuna, Forst. 



75ter. Butler, Sind ; Stray Feathers, Vol, VII, p. 175 ; Aboo, 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 450. 



Length, 7'88 to 9 ; expanse, 20*5 to 21 '5 ; wing, 5'6 to 675 ; tail 

 from vent, 2'5 to 3'37 ; tarsus, 1'06 to 119 ; bill from gape, 0'88 to 

 0-94. 



Toes and claws very pale greyish -brown, the latter darker at the 

 points, and not much curved ; soles creamy- white ; pads and 

 papillae much developed and soft, scutellation obscure ; three or 

 four transverse quasi-scales at the end of each toe ; interior ridge 



