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Museum at Norwich, for comparison with the type and unique 
example of the species in that museum. Mr. Reeve stated 
that the Guiana example was identical with the type of 
A.jardinii, and therefore the habitat of this species, previously 
unknown, was now ascertained to be Guiana. 
Mr. Ogilvie Grant, on behalf of Mr. C. B. Rickett, 
exhibited an example of a very distinct new species of Scops 
Owl, for which Mr. Rickett had proposed the name of 
Scops latouchii, sp. n. 
Adult male. This species belongs to the yellow-billed group 
of the genus Scops, and is apparently most nearly allied to 
S. icterorhyncha, Shelley, from the Gold Coast, and more 
distantly related to S. rufescens (Horsf.), from Malacca and 
the Sunda Islands. The pale frontal band is, however, less 
conspicuous than in the above-named species. Scops la - 
touchii differs chiefly from S. icterorhyncha in having the 
feathers of the head and mantle distinctly barred with black 
and rufous buff; but the barring is mostly concealed by the 
wide reddish-brown tips to the feathers, which are very finely 
vermiculated with black; the tail is rather strongly marked 
with irregular bars and mottlings of black on a brownish-red 
ground; the bars on the outermost primaries are rufous buff 
instead of white; the underparts are whitish buff, shading into 
rufous on the upper breast and flanks, entirely devoid of dark 
shaft-streaks, but very finely vermiculated with brownish 
black ; the feathers covering the basal part of the belly, 
vent, and the longish flank-plumes are pure white, some of the 
latter, like the under tail-coverts, having reddish-brown bars. 
Total length about 9’0 inches, wing 5*9, tail 3*5, tarsus 
1T5. 
Hab. Ah Cl/ung, Fohkien, 16th December, 1899. 
Mr. Digby Pigott communicated a note from his friend 
Mr. J. R. Dasent, C.B., who had just returned from his 
yearly visit to the island of St. Vincent, West Indies. 
Mr. Dasent stated that the destruction of bird-life of all 
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