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14. Scops rutilus, Piccheran. 



Arch, du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. iv. p. 326. tab. 22; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 29. 



Diagn. — Toes, and alsr the small, scaled, hind part of the slender tarsi, naked ; 

 whole plumage rusty-red ; occiput and neck without collars. 



Descr. — A very handsome and interesting species, the size of Scops lempigi. The 

 whole colouring is rusty-red. Front and eye-stripe white, pointed with white. Lorum 

 feathers whitish at the base, black-spotted, with very long black or reddish bristles. 

 Face and anterior ear-coverts reddish with lighter shafts. The hind ear-margin with 

 black cross bands and ends. Head and back reddish, with black zigzag bands from the 

 black shaft-stripes. JNIargins of the shoulder-coverts on the external web pure white, 

 pointed with black. Two or three large white spots on the wing-coverts. Breast, sides 

 and belly rufous, with black central stripes and white, black-margined cross bands. 

 Wings blackish, light-banded ; bands on the external webs sometimes white. Tail very 

 irregularly pointed, with about eight lighter cross bands. 



The example described is the one figured by Dr. Pucheran. Another smaller specimen 

 in the Paris Museum is more rufous ; it has on the head, back, and under parts only 

 black stripes in the middle of each feather ; wing and tail-feathers with very indistinct 

 bars ; only traces of some white bands on the external and internal margins of the webs. 



Head 45, wing 156-147, tail 86-76, tarsi 27 mm. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



The Indian species, like Scops asio, &c., are also so intimately connected, that it is 

 very difficult to make out their differences. It is only necessary to give an exact 

 description of the oldest known species, and the trifling differences by which the 

 others may be distinguished from it. 



15. Scops i.empigi, Bp. 



Strix lempigi. 



noctula, Reiuw. PI. Col. 99. 



Scops javanicus, Less. 



Descr. — A little stronger and larger than Scops ephialtes, larger head, bill and toes. 

 The ground colour is dark rusty-brown, not grey, with an immense number of fine 

 spots and zigzag bands. Around the occiput a rusty-yellow band, and a second collar 

 a little lower on the neck. The face is light, nearly white, with black spots. Tiie 

 bristle-feathers of the lores are either with white shafts, or spotted and with black 

 shafts. Near the anterior corner of the eye a dark spot. The white front and stripe 

 over the eye have black cross lines. The ear-horns on the exterior web black, with 

 rusty-yellow spots ; on the inner webs the ground colour is rusty-yellow, with fine black 

 points and cross bands. The head-feathers black, spotted with rusty-yellow. The 

 shoulder-coverts have on the margin a series of rusty-yellowish spots on the exterior 

 webs ; these webs are spotted and sometimes margined with black. The outer webs of 



