. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 84 and composed of oehraceous-buff feathers, every one of which is tipped with blackish ; wing-coverts coloured like the hack, the least ones dusky and neai-ly uniform brown, the greater ones vermiou- lated and marked in the centre with blackish, the feathers more or less distinctly barred with fulvous, and inclining to buffy- white near the tips of the outer webs, the spurious quills also distinctly notched on the outer web with buflFy white; primary coverts blackish brown, very minutely vermiculated with sandy buff, forming three tol
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 84 and composed of oehraceous-buff feathers, every one of which is tipped with blackish ; wing-coverts coloured like the hack, the least ones dusky and neai-ly uniform brown, the greater ones vermiou- lated and marked in the centre with blackish, the feathers more or less distinctly barred with fulvous, and inclining to buffy- white near the tips of the outer webs, the spurious quills also distinctly notched on the outer web with buflFy white; primary coverts blackish brown, very minutely vermiculated with sandy buff, forming three tolerably distinct bars on the outer webs; quills dark broMii, banded with ashy brown on the inner webs, these lighter bars being replaced on the outer webs by others of sandy buif sHghtly vermiculated with brown, the primaries externally chequered with white bars, the in- terspaces also slightly vermiculated with sandy buff; the innermost secondaries vermiculated like the back, which they closely resemble ; tad-feathers dark brown, coarsely vermiculated with zigzag lines of sandy buff, and crossed with seven or eight bars of the latter colour" on the outer feathers, only seven being traceable on the centre ones, the outermost externally notched with indistinct white spots; lores white, slightly barred across with black, the feathers rufescent towards the tips, which are blackish; a verj- distinct eyebrow of greyish white feathers, narrowly tipped with brown; the sides of the crown rather gi-eyer than the vertex, and so forming a light band on each side of the head continuous with the ear-coverts, which are whitish on the inner web, slightly barred with brown, and vermiculated near the tip with minute lines of the same, the outer webs blackish, mottled with a few spots of sandy buff, and vermiculated with brown on the outer margin; behind the upper. Leg of Scops semitorqnes, to show featheiing on toes. part of the eye a patch of rufescent feathers vermiculated with black, and
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