224 DR. J. J. KAUP’S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGIDA. 
Obs.—I have seen but one specimen, but it is necessary to examine a greater number. 
I consider most of these species, so very nearly connected with Scops ephialtes, as 
subspecies. 
6. Scops LEucopsis, Kp. 
Athene leucopsis, Hartl. 
Diagn.—The wings on the inner side uniform blackish, without bands. First wing 
feather as long as the ninth. 
Descr.—A very distinct species, which cannot be confounded with any of the other 
species of this natural subgenus. It nearly resembles Scops ephialies, in form very much, 
has the same long wings, but longer tail and thinner tarsi, which on the hind part are 
not feathered, but scaled. In its colouring it is very different. Round the eyes black, 
like Otus brachyotus. Lores white, partly rusty and black spotted, with black 
shafts or black shaft-ends. Stripe over the eye pure white, part of it with black 
margin on the inner side next the head, part with zigzag cross bands. The middle 
part of the front dark brown and rufous spotted. The feathers near the stripe of the 
eye with white spots on the outer webs. In the middle of the occiput some white 
feathers, with broad black shaft-spots and rufous or black pointed margins. The face 
is white, with black spots and black inner webs, which gives the face a variegated 
colouring. Below the middle cf the eye next to the lorum more mixed with rufous and 
black. The feathers ‘of the hinder ear-margins black, the next following with rusty 
cross bands, and the next series with white ends. The feather-horns, which are not 
very well distinguished, are dark brown, with rusty spots. The back rusty-yellow, 
white-spotted. Each feather with blackish root, white band in the middle, and rufous 
black-pointed margin. The under parts of the back to the tail-coverts dark brown, 
rusty-spotted. Shoulder-coverts similarly coloured, and on the exterior margin white, 
with black end-spots and points. The ten coverts of the ten hand-wings uniform black. 
The ten hand-wings black, near the end pale rufous, pointed with blackish. The two 
exterior feathers with rufous outer webs, and the following with two to three dirty-white 
longitudinal spots. The thumb-feathers black, on the outer web with white spots and 
end-spots. Some of the small coverts of the thumb-feathers similarly white-spotted. 
The wrist dark brown, with rufous spots. On the arm-wings the rusty colour predo- 
minates, and there are black shaft-stripes and dark zigzag drawing. The margin of the 
interior web at the base is dirty yellowish-white. The colouring of the tail is similar. 
The exterior feathers only with white spots on the exterior web. The lower parts 
are white; some feathers, as in Scops ephialtes, with broad bronzed shaft-stripes and 
pointed zigzag bands. The middle of the belly dirty rusty-brown. Over all these 
feathers pronged cross bands. The under tail-coverts white, with light-brown spots 
near the shafts, and with the margins dark-bounded, 
