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Show 912 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON THE [NOV. 19, 1 have been largely indebted for great assistance in determining the obscurer species of Rapaces. 14. SCOPS EVERETTI, sp. n. [Zamboanga, $ , April: iris warm brown ; bill pale greenish leaden, nearly white ; feet whitish grey ; claws dark grey. 3, April: iris deep brown ; feet whitish.] Mr. Everett has sent three examples of a species of Scops, which may be described as being a large form of Scops lempiji as it occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rich brown colouring of the Javan species ; the same broad dark-brown mark in the form of a parallelogram on the head and nape; the same pale-coloured forehead, stripe above each eye and round the nape, and the broad dark brown stripe leading from behind the eye, and including most of the ear-tufts. In the Zamboanga species (as represented in Mr. Everett's series) there are no pale uniform tawny or fulvous scapulars. Underneath, the markings differ from those of the Javan bird by being more confused, and by the absence of regular dark-brown cross markings on the abdominal plumes. The general colouring of the under surface is of a ruddier brown. Dimensions:- Wing. Tarsus. Tail. Culmen. in. in. in. in. 3 6*50 1*20 3*50 0*62 $.... 6*75 1*20 3*62 0*68 Mr. Sharpe, to whom I submitted two of the specimens, has obliged me with the following observations:-"Your Owl is of the S. lempiji group, having that peculiar light streak on the sides of the crown, running onto the ear-tufts ; but underneath it is quite aberrant, and verges more towards the Moluccan S. leucospilus section. At the same time I expect it will come very near Scops umbratilis, Swinhoe." Mr. Gurney writes, " The Owl is new to me, and different to any that we have here." 15. THRIPONAX JAVENSIS (28). [Zamboanga. 3, March : iris yellow.] The white at the tips of the primaries is unusually developed in the specimens from Zamboanga. 16. CHRYSOCOLAPTES LUCIDUS (32). Chrysocolaptes maculiceps, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 314, t. xlvi. fig. 2. [Zamboanga, 5 , May : iris crimson.] An example (marked a female) wears the plumage of C. maculiceps, as described and figured by Mr. Sharpe. |