. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 4. scors. 73 lowish white, those near the edge of the wing durk brown, mottled with sandy rufous, the under wing-coverts ashy brown, fulvous at base, and rcscmbhng the inner Hning of the quills, which are ashy brown, barred with fulvous; bill horny black ; feet pale; iris yellow. Total length t) inches, wing G-2o, tail 3-2, tarsus Leg of <S'. hucospilus. Uab. Batchian ; Gilolo. a. 5 ad. sk. b. S ad. c. Ad. sk. d. Juv. sk. Batcliiau. JBatchian. Batchian. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. T^-pe of species. A. II. Wallace, Esq. [ Purcha
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 4. scors. 73 lowish white, those near the edge of the wing durk brown, mottled with sandy rufous, the under wing-coverts ashy brown, fulvous at base, and rcscmbhng the inner Hning of the quills, which are ashy brown, barred with fulvous; bill horny black ; feet pale; iris yellow. Total length t) inches, wing G-2o, tail 3-2, tarsus Leg of <S'. hucospilus. Uab. Batchian ; Gilolo. a. 5 ad. sk. b. S ad. c. Ad. sk. d. Juv. sk. Batcliiau. JBatchian. Batchian. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. T^-pe of species. A. II. Wallace, Esq. [ Purchased. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. Ohs. Scops leucospiliis is distinguished by its dark brown plumage and large white shoulder-spots, but especially by its grepsh white cheeks and ear-coverts: the under surface is whiter than in any of the allied races, this being the case even in a nestling specimen. Subsp. y. Scops botiruensis. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) Ephialtes leucospila (pt.), Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 25; JFald. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 39. Scops magicus (pt.), ScJd. Mus. Oti, p. 22; id. Eeviie Accipitr. p. 11. Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, aU the feathei's coarsely vermiculated with blackish cross lines and broadly centred vrith black, especiallj' on the head ; on the nape a few feathers barred with white, but not sufficiently to cause even an indication of a band, the hind neck, however, being so broadly and distinctly banded with white on many feathers, and washed with ochraceous buff near their bases, that a tolerably distinct neck-band is seen ; on many of the dorsal feathers appear a few sandy buff bars; the scapulars distinctly barred across with sandy buff near the tips of the feathers, the outer web ])ure white, with a tolerably broad black tip ; wing-coverts coloured like the back and vermiculated in the same manner, the mechan and greater series broadly barred with white on the outer web, which is nearly entirely white on the ex- ternal coverts belonging to
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