226 DR. J. J. KAUP’S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGIDA. 
two species of this subgenus to represent the Bubo orientalis and coromandus, which are 
spread over Asia. 
Subgenus e. Megascops. 
Diagn.—Nostrils on the margin of the cera. First wing-feather as long as the seventh 
or tenth ; first to fourth wing-feather emarginated on the inner web. Tarsi feathered ; 
toes mostly naked. 
Hab. Asia and America ; the largest birds of the genus. 
Descr.—They resemble in some respects the true Scops, but the upper parts are darker, 
and the bill in old age is yellowish or dark brownish, and never black. The ground 
colour is mostly rusty-red or grey, with irregular black shaft-spots and interrupted 
cross lines. Between these lines are small spots and rusty-red bands. Round about 
the occiput a white or rusty-red band, and nearer the back a second collar of the same 
colour: near the eyes darker: the face mostly lighter; there is also on the front a 
small stripe of white extending from the lorum over the eye. The feathers of the hinder 
margin of the ear have black or dark-brown points, with a black horizontal stripe. 
Along the shoulder-coverts a series of white or ferruginous spots, also some feathers of 
the same colour on the margin of the wing. 
The first ten feathers of the wing are brown, pointed with from five to eight whitish 
or light rusty-yellow, black-margined spots. These inner webs are clearer in the young 
bird, and the under parts more lightly coloured, white or rusty-red, with black shaft- 
stripes and irregular cross lines, which come from the shaft-stripe. On the blackish 
ground-colour of the tail are irregular stripes and cross bands, which are clearer on the 
under side. 
9. Scops FLAMMEOLA. 
Stria flammeola, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 
Diagn.—Wing 120-130, tail 56-66 mm. long. Mexico. 
Descr.—The smallest of all the species in this section, as also in the whole genus and 
subfamily Strigine. I know of two specimens in the Berlin Museum’. The larger one is 
very elegantly grey, spotted with white, black, and rusty-yellow. The bristle-feathers very 
long, like trichopsis, white on the root and black on the end. The face is white and 
grey, with black points, and rusty tint next the eye. A stripe over the eye white with 
black margin. The veil white with rusty-yellow and black end. Under the chin with 
three black bands and rusty-yellow margin on each feather. Ear-horns with black 
cross bands, on the inner web white, on the outer web rusty-brown. The upper part 
coloured and with drawing like the other; round the occiput a band of white, black- 
lined and spotted feathers. A second neck-collar, similarly coloured and drawn, is 
' Specimens of this species have been lately obtained by M. Sallé in Vera Cruz. See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, 
p- 96. (P. L. 8.) 
