BY DR. T. T. KAUP. 
6. S. leucopsis ; Athene leucopsis, Hartl. — The wings on the 
inner side uniform blackish without hands ; first quill as long as 
the ninth. A very distinct and handsome species from the Island 
of St. Thomas in Western Africa. 
e. Subgenus Acnemis. — The first quill longer than the tenth ; 
tarsus naked and scaled ; toes completely naked and scaled. 
(■ S. gymnopodus , G. Gray. — In size and colour it is like 8. 
ephialtea , but has shorter wings and tarsus ; the wings on the inner 
side next the root, with three small dirty whitish-yellow bars not 
reaching to the shaft, and directed from the tail to the head. India. 
d. Subgenus Ptilopsis; Ephialtes , Bonap.— The first quill very 
long, emarginated near the end, shorter than the second and third ; 
bdl projected and covered with very long bristle-feathers; toes 
with thin bristle-feathers. 
8. 8. leucotis , Swains.; Str. leucotes, Temm., PI. Col. 16.— Whole 
lace, feathers of the lorum and front pure white. This species has 
some analogies with Bubo lacteus. Africa. 
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«c may draw conclusions by analogies, we may expect some 
mm or other to find two species in Asia which will represent Bubo 
onentalis and coromander. 
or# ' “Vims Megascops. — First quill as long as the seventh 
q Jr = 1_4th emarginated ; tarsus feathered ; toes mostly naked. 
I on i '/ am " lcola >' Str flammeola, Licht. (Berl. Mus.) — Wings 
Mexico* ; tal 5G ~° 6 mm- long ' The smallest of the Night Owls. 
fcatLfiitr^*’ Wagl Isis> 1832 ’ p - 276— Toes with bristle- 
mat m, alike Athene noctua. Mexico. 
tab xxii -'T 1 *' ArChiT ' du MuS ' d ’ Hist ‘ Nat - iv - P- 326, 
also the sca^r f Mag ' de Z °° L 1849 ’ p ’ 29 ' - Toes naked, and 
fed; occiimt m r P . alt °, f thC Sle ” der tarsus ; total P luma ge rusty 
1 nd neck without collars. Madagascar. 
^ PeCleS Anlerica “'e so intimatoly cou- 
. th * of «eh only „y 
from one and the ccrt ain, that they are only subspecies 
m ' U,e san,e typo- The oldest known is 
