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an elevation of 8,000 feet above the sea. Of the true 
Scops Owls, some of the most remarkable in the 
collection, are S. exythrocampe from Canton, the type 
specimen, described in the /ézs for 1874; S. pryeri 
(Gurney) from Loo Choo Island, also a type and 
described in the /dzs for 1889; S. e/egans, a very 
pretty species from the same locality ; S. sibute- 
ensis from the Philippine Islands, a co-type; S. ustus, 
a type, from the Upper Amazon (small Case No. 25); 
S. nudipes from Costa Rica; and S. hambroecki, yet 
another type-specimen, from Formosa. One species of 
this genus, Scops zorca (Gould) (S. g¢u of Yarrell’s 
British Birds), is an occasional visitor to Great Britain, 
and has been met with in Norfolk. It is a woodland 
species subsisting on insects and occasionally small 
rodents. 
Case XLV. 
contains other rare Scops Owls, notably S kennicotti 
from Chilliwack; S. senegalensis from Gaboon; and ~ 
S. minutus, a pretty little Scops from Ceylon. <A 
singular tufted species, allied to the Scops Owls, 
Lophostrix stricklandi, from Guatemala, will be found 
in the small Case numbered 26. 
Case XLVI. 
In this case are a good series of Fishing Owls of the 
genus Aetupa, of which there are three fine species 
from Northern India, Malacca, and Ceylon; these 
Owls prey chiefly on crabs, and it will be noticed that 
their tarsi (the lower bone of the leg) are practically 
divested of feathers. A small but elegant species, 
Gurney’s Eagle Owl, Pseudoptynx gurneyi (Tweeddale), 
and two examples of P. philippensis are succeeded by 
a third example of the same genus named FP. d/akistont, 
after the discoverer, the late Captain T. W. Blakiston, 
