. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 58 Fig. 1. Leg of & qiu, nat. size. Fig. 2. Leg of 8. japonicus, size, to sliow difference in size and extent of tarsal feathering. Subsp. e. Scops malayanus. (Plate IV, fig. 1.) Scops malayanus, A. Say, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 147. Adult. Above dark brown, freckled with very minute vermicula- tions of sandy buff, rather coar,ser on the scapulars; nearly aU the plumes of the upper surface variegated with distinct spots or bars of white, in many cases concealed, but very broad and distinct on the hind part of the neck, w
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 58 Fig. 1. Leg of & qiu, nat. size. Fig. 2. Leg of 8. japonicus, size, to sliow difference in size and extent of tarsal feathering. Subsp. e. Scops malayanus. (Plate IV, fig. 1.) Scops malayanus, A. Say, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 147. Adult. Above dark brown, freckled with very minute vermicula- tions of sandy buff, rather coar,ser on the scapulars; nearly aU the plumes of the upper surface variegated with distinct spots or bars of white, in many cases concealed, but very broad and distinct on the hind part of the neck, where they form a tolerably pronounced coUar ; outer scapulars largely marked with sandy buff and white, forming a conspicuous shoulder-patch, the white predominating on the lower scapulars, which are broadly tipped with blackish on the outer web ; head rather darker than the back, and slightly washed with greyish, most of the plumes blackish in the centre, and spotted on both webs with sandy buff or whitish ; ear-tufts orange-buff, vermiculated with brown towards the tips, and carrying generally a subterminal white spot; wing-coverts rather darker than the back, but rather more rufescent, the mottlings very distinctly rufous sandy colour, the uppermost of the median series externally marked with white spots, the spurious quills also notched with white on the outer web ; greater coverts slightly shaded with grey and largely marked with white on the outer web ; primary coverts dark brown, barred indistinctly with frecklings of sandy buff; quills brown, externally barred with pale sandy buff, the tips of both primaries and secondaries thickly mottled with yellowish buff towards the tips, the primaries externally notched with white ; lower back, rump, and upper taU- coverts dark brown, thickly vermiculated with sandy rufous, and varied with half-concealed sandy spots; tail dark brown, mottled with sandy-buff vermiculations, especially towards the tips of the feathers, and crossed v
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