SCOPS SUNIA. 
(THE RUFOUS SCOPS OWL.) 
it) • -iwe TVlvHi T A S B xiv t). 182 ; Jerd. 111. Ind. Ora. 
Scops sunia, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 175 , Blyth, J . A. b. • P 
pi. 41 (1847) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 67 (1875). 
Elites sunia. Gray. Cat. Mamm. &c. Nepal, Coll. Hodge, p. 51; Kelaart, fcWJ 
et Cat. p. 116 ; Layard, Ana. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, m P- M» i H °f & 
Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. i. p. 70 (1854); Holdsworth, V. Z. S. 18/ o, p. 418. 
Scops aldromnii, Blyth Cat. B. Mas A. S B. p. 36 (1849^ p. 386 (1870) ; 
Ephialtes pennatus , Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 18b (isoz;, mum, S 
Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 847. 
2 £>! P. <* (1873). 
The* Indian Scops Owl, apnd Jerdon; Ctoghad Burial, Swnya Bnsal, Nepal; Chitta guta, 
Yeria chitta guba, Tel. (Jerdon). 
Bassa, Puncki-Bassa, Sinhalese. 
M female (Ceylon).-Length (estimated from skin) 6-8 inches; culmen from cere 0-5; wing 5-0; tail 2-4; tarsus 
Tto ssi — b,s zzzsxz ^ 
2-25 ; tarsus 0-9. Weight 2* 0*. „ , . feet fleshy gree n ; cere olive-brown. 
Iris “bright yellow; bill ‘horny, darker tip ( j h j testuut . fore bead and part of crown and ear- 
Head, entire upper surface, sides, and iower par t of th . ^ ^ ^ the occiput and Wnd nec k ; back and lower 
tufts with broad black mesial stripes, dihunis g ‘ ... » ,, hue . least wing-coverts with the 
scapulars with irregular black shaft-lines and transverse cental stripes ; lateral 
concealed bases of the feathers blackish, the median anc gi , ’ u, we p . a few of the 
lpui«s .id. m„,t Of tie outer web, .bite, and . W, C rf ^ j*“ ■ 
the rest. ffl9tWs at cacb s i de 0 f the forehead white at the base ; terminal portions of 
" with . black mesial strip, of varying width at the ceutre, 
lings on a rufous ground patch, these marking, ,o arranged a. to have an “" d p" “ „d 
the centre of the feather; underlying abdominal plumes, thig s, anc unc ci ai co\ . coverts • under 
front of tarsus rufous, posterior part of tarsus whitish ; a few longitudinal dark marks on the tad-coverts , 
wing mingled buff and rufous, the outer feathers marked with black. 
Vnuna. An immature male shot in the cinnamon-gardens in May last, and which is just beginning to acquire its 
yearling plumage, measured as follows in the flesh : — Length 6-0 inches ; wing 5-0 ; tail 2-25 ; tarsus < 
Above' a^paler°nifous than the adult, the feathers of the forehead and crown with narrow mesial lines of : black .» nn 
the adult, and all the feathers of the body with indistinct white terminal margins, preceded by a black s 
• mlQ qnfl nw bar The shorter lateral scapulars have the outer webs white, but not so pure 
- ceutral blacki.h markings ; th, wiuglct with white .pot. ou the outer weh, of 
