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scapulars and edges of the wings are spotted with 

 white : the tail is black, with four reddish zigzag 

 bars : the lower parts of the body are white, slightly- 

 tinged with reddish, and marked with fine transverse 

 zigzag stripes, with a broad black stripe and three 

 irregular spots on each feather, in the direction of 

 the shaft. The female is larger : the upper parts are 

 reddish-brown, marked with brighter red bands ; and 

 all the feathers of the back have a black stripe in the 

 direction of the shaft : those parts which are white in 

 the male are yellowish in the female : the feathers of 

 the wings and tail are rayed with angular red and 

 dusky-brown bands. 



This species may probably be the Strix Lempyi of 

 Dr. Horsfield : see Linnean Transactions, vol. xiii. 

 p. 140. 



Sp. 5. Sc.? Leschenaulti. 



Sc ? Jusco-nffescens nigro striata^ subtus rufescens fusco trans- 



verse undiilata; tarsis fiudis cceruleis. 

 Brown-red Scops ? striped with red, beneath reddish transversely 



waved with brown j with naked blue tarsi. 

 Strix Leschenaulti. Temm. PL Col. 20. 



Inhabits India. Length nineteen inches and a 

 half: the egrets are very small and placed behind, 

 and at a distance from the eyes : the head, the nape, 

 the back, and the scapulars are of an earthy-red, 

 with a black stripe down the middle of each feather : 

 the lesser wing-coverts are varied with large black 

 and white spots ; the latter colour predominating near 

 the bend of the wing : the greater coverts are white 

 in the centre, and those placed nearest to the body 

 are of the same colour on the back : the wing and 



