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 ejes, and meeting on 

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

 nuchal band aud 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 Avebs. 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 horu colour (in skin). Total length 

 about 10 inches, wing 6*7, tail 3T, tarsus 1'2, middle toe0"9, 

 culraen 1*.2. 



Hub. Hills of Solok, west coast of Sumatra. 



Remarks. The type specimen belongs to the Stuttgart 

 ]\Iuseum, 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 al^domen and whitish tarsal plumes. 



I am indebted to Professor Lampert, of the Stuttgart ■ 

 Museum, and to Count Berlepsch, for the opportunity of de- 

 scribing this new species from an island in the natural 

 history of which I am particularly interested. 



The Hon. Walter FLOTiiscriiLD exhibited an example of a 

 new species of Kail, which he described as follows : — 



Kallus muelleri, sp. n. 



Upper surface of head, occiput, and neck brownish red, 

 faintly and irregularly striated with black; back and rump 



