. Birds. Birds. 298 asionidjE. Ephialtes bakhamuna, Boldsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 417; Sume, ,; iii,p. 450. Scops indicus, Bvtler, 8. F. vii, p. 175; Sume, Md. pp. 201, 359. Scops bakkamoena, Seid, S. F. x, p. 16; Blanf. Ibis, 1894, p. 527. The Large Scops Owl, Jerdon; TharJcavi choghad, H.; Lattya kusyal, Nepal; Pedda chitta gvha, Tel. Coloration. Lores sullied white, the longest black-tipped, rest of facial disk light brown or rufescent, generally banded darker; forehead, broad supercilia, and inner webs of the long aigrettes white or buff, speckled and barred with black; ruflf whi
. Birds. Birds. 298 asionidjE. Ephialtes bakhamuna, Boldsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 417; Sume, ,; iii,p. 450. Scops indicus, Bvtler, 8. F. vii, p. 175; Sume, Md. pp. 201, 359. Scops bakkamoena, Seid, S. F. x, p. 16; Blanf. Ibis, 1894, p. 527. The Large Scops Owl, Jerdon; TharJcavi choghad, H.; Lattya kusyal, Nepal; Pedda chitta gvha, Tel. Coloration. Lores sullied white, the longest black-tipped, rest of facial disk light brown or rufescent, generally banded darker; forehead, broad supercilia, and inner webs of the long aigrettes white or buff, speckled and barred with black; ruflf white or buff, with dark brown edges; crown and upper parts generally closely vermiculated and speckled with black on a bufE gi'ound, many feathers with black shaft-stripes more or less dentate and irregular, or even broken up, generally broadest on the crown and nape ; a pale buff nuchal collar, formed by buff feathers with dark edges j large buff spots tipped with black on the outer scapulars, forming. Fig. 76.—Head of 8. bakkammna, %. a distinct buff scapular band; quills brown, with paler mottled bands and tips, the bands as usual forming white or buff spots on the outer webs of the primaries, but becoming faint and indistinct on their inner webs, better marked on the secondaries, and running into buff indentations on the inner borders, as also on the primaries near the base; tail brown, with pale cross-bands, all the feathers more or less mottled, especially the middle pair and the outer webs and tips of the others; chin white or buff, throat (part of the ruff-feathers) buff with shafts, tips, and sometimes bars dark brown; rest of lower surface white or buff, somewhat irregularly black-shafted, and much stippled with fine wavy cross- bars more or less broken up; legs, vent, and under tail-coverts nearly or quite uniform white or buff. Some birds are more rufous than others. Young birds are very indistinctly coloured, the prevalent markings being close, irregular, dusky cro
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