942 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON THE [NOV. 19, 



1 have been largely indebted for great assistance in determining the 

 obscurer species of Rapaces. 



14. Scops everetti, sp. n. 



[Zamboanga, $ , April : iris warm brown ; bill pale greenish leaden, 

 nearly white; feet whitish grey ; claws dark grey. 8, April: iris 

 deep brown ; feet whitish.] 



Mr. Everett has sent three examples of a species of Scops, which 

 may be described as being a large form of Scops lempiji as it 

 occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rich brown colouring of the 

 Javan species ; the same broad dark-brown mark in the form of 

 a parallelogram on the head and nape ; the same pale-coloured 

 forehead, stripe above each eye and round the nape, and the broad 

 dark brown stripe leading from behind the eye, and including most 

 of the ear-tufts. In the Zamboanga species (as represented in Mr. 

 Everett's series) there are no pale uniform tawny or fulvous sca- 

 pulars. Underneath, the markings differ from those of the Javan 

 bird by being more confused, and by the absence of regular dark-brown 

 cross markings on the abdominal plumes. The general colouring 

 of the under surface is of a ruddier brown. 



Dimensions : — 



Mr. Sharpe, to whom I submitted two of the specimens, has 

 obliged me with the following observations: — "Your Owl is of the 

 S. lempiji group, having that peculiar light streak on the sides of 

 the crown, running onto the ear-tufts ; but underneath it is quite 

 aberrant, and verges more towards the Moluccan 5. leucospilus sec- 

 tion. At the same time I expect it will come very near Scops 

 umbratilis, Swinhoe." 



Mr. Gurney writes, " The Owl is new to me, and different to any 

 that we have here." 



15. Thriponax javensis (23). 



[Zamboanga. 8 , March : iris yellow.] 



The white at the tips of the primaries is unusually developed in 

 the specimens from Zamboanga. 



16. Chrysocolaptes lxjcidus (32). 



Chrysocolaptes macvliceps, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. 

 p. 314, t. xlvi. fig. 2. 



[Zamboanga, $? , May : iris crimson.] 



An example (marked a female) wears the plumage of C. macu- 

 liceps, as described and figured by Mr. Sharpe. 



