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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
537. SCOPS LEMPIJI. 
HORSFIELD^S SCOPS-OWL. 
Strix lempiji, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 140. Scops lempiji, Salvad. XJcc, 
Born. p. 19 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 91 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 38 ; 
Hume 8r Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 35, 497 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 83 ; Bingham, S. F. 
ix. p. 147; Kelham, Ibis, 1881/ p. 370; Hume, S. F. x. p. 183 (note). 
Description. — Male and female. Very similar in general appearance to 
S. lettia in the fulvous phase; but the fulvous throughout very much 
deeper and brighter ; the black marks on the upper plumage much larger 
and more pronounced ; size smaller. 
This species, according to Mr. Sharpe, has also a brown phase, but never 
a grey phase like S. lettia. 
This small Owl may be recognized from the preceding,, to which it bears 
a close resemblance, by the intense rufous colour of its plumage and by 
the junction of the toes with the tarsus being bare of feathers. 
Horsfield's Scops-Owl is sparingly distributed over Pegu and Tenas- 
serim. From the former Division Mr. Hume records specimens from 
Rangoon and Thayetmyo, and in the latter Mr. Davison found it generally 
distributed in the better-wooded tracts. Capt. Bingham states that it is 
common in the Thoungyeen valley. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and is found in Sumatra,, Bangka,, 
Java and Borneo. 
Capt. Bingham obtained the eggs of this species in Teuasserim in 
March. 
538. SCOPS SAaiTTATUS. 
THE LARGE MALACCAN SCOPS-OWL. 
Ephialtes sagittatus, Cass. Journ. Acad. Philad. ii. p. 96, pi. 12. Scops sagit- 
tatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 98 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 247 ; Hume 8f 
Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 35 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 83. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage a rather 
rich chestnut ; the wings barred on the inner webs with brown, and the 
tail irregularly banded with the same; each feather of the upper body- 
plumage with small arrow-head fulvous marks in the centre and some 
narrow wavy black lines across ; the forehead for a depth of nearly an 
inch, a broad supercilium and the inner webs of most of the feathers of 
the ear-tufts white; the shafts of the feathers of the forehead nearly 
black ; the tips of the tufts and the top of the head a darker chestnut 
