﻿Ornithologists' 
  Club. 
  441 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  R. 
  Ogilvie-Grant 
  exhibited 
  some 
  skins 
  of 
  rare 
  

   species 
  of 
  Game-Birds^ 
  the 
  principal 
  being 
  Caccahis 
  magna, 
  

   Prjev., 
  and 
  Phasianus 
  satscheunensis, 
  Prjev., 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   which 
  had 
  recently 
  been 
  sent 
  in 
  exchange 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Pleske. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Ernst 
  Hartert 
  exliibited 
  a 
  new 
  Scops-Owl, 
  which 
  he 
  

   characterized 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  PiSORHINA 
  SOLOKENSIS, 
  Sp. 
  U. 
  

  

  Top 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  deep 
  brown, 
  nearly 
  blackish 
  ; 
  ear- 
  

   tufts 
  white, 
  with 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  tips 
  and 
  outer 
  webs 
  of 
  the 
  

   feathers; 
  a 
  white 
  line, 
  varied 
  with 
  some 
  small 
  blackish 
  spots, 
  

   extending 
  from 
  the 
  ear-tufts 
  over 
  the 
  eyes, 
  and 
  meeting 
  on 
  

   the 
  forehead 
  ; 
  a 
  white 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  occiput 
  ; 
  a 
  broad, 
  whitish, 
  

   nuchal 
  band 
  and 
  another 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  hind 
  neck. 
  Back 
  

   and 
  rump 
  blackish 
  brown, 
  with 
  pale 
  rusty 
  brown 
  spots 
  and 
  

   blotches. 
  Rectrices 
  similar 
  in 
  colour 
  to 
  the 
  back, 
  but 
  some- 
  

   what 
  duller. 
  Primaries 
  deep 
  brown, 
  with 
  very 
  pale 
  brown, 
  

   almost 
  whitish, 
  spots 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  webs 
  ; 
  secondaries 
  

   spotted 
  on 
  both 
  webs. 
  Wing-coverts 
  deep 
  blackish 
  brown, 
  

   with 
  very 
  large 
  white 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  webs. 
  Throat 
  and 
  

   breast 
  mixed 
  pale 
  brown, 
  rusty, 
  blackish, 
  and 
  whitish, 
  more 
  

   albescent 
  towards 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  Lower 
  abdomen, 
  vent, 
  and 
  

   under 
  tail-coverts 
  white. 
  Tarsal 
  plumes 
  nearly 
  white. 
  

   Under 
  wing-coverts 
  brown 
  and 
  white. 
  Toes 
  entirely 
  bare 
  

   up 
  to 
  the 
  tarsus, 
  which 
  is 
  thickly 
  feathered, 
  yellowish 
  brown 
  

   (in 
  skin). 
  Bill 
  whitish 
  horn- 
  colour 
  (in 
  skin). 
  Total 
  length 
  

   about 
  10 
  inches, 
  wing 
  6'7, 
  tail 
  3'1, 
  tarsus 
  1*2, 
  middle 
  toeO'9. 
  

   culmen 
  1'2. 
  

  

  Hub. 
  Hills 
  of 
  Solok, 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Sumatra. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  The 
  type-specimen 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  Stuttgart 
  

   Museum, 
  and 
  was 
  sent 
  me 
  for 
  comparison 
  by 
  Count 
  von 
  

   Berlepsch, 
  who 
  believed 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  new 
  to 
  science. 
  Its 
  nearest 
  

   ally 
  is 
  Scops 
  everetti, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  chiefly 
  distinguished 
  

   by 
  the 
  great 
  amount 
  of 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  ear-tufts 
  and 
  wing- 
  

   coverts 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  white 
  bands 
  on 
  the 
  neck, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  by 
  

   the 
  pure 
  white 
  lower 
  abdomen 
  and 
  whitish 
  tarsal 
  plumes. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  indebted 
  to 
  Professor 
  Lamport, 
  of 
  the 
  Stuttgart 
  

  

  