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 90. Glaucidium cuculoides persimile snbspec. nov. 



[Nociua cuculnkleK Gould, Cent. Jlinuil. B. pi. 4 (l«:j-2.— Himalaya).] 

 Glaucidium whileiyi (non Blyth !) Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 488 (Hainan). 



15 <J? LiadoD, March 1903 (No. 182). 



^? Five-Finger Mts., April 1899 (John Whitehead). 



Very similar to G. cw-idoides cuculoides from Iiulia, but with the upper surface 

 distinctly more rufous, especially on the head, back, scapulars and u]iper wing- 

 coverts. Otherwise perfectly similar, of the same size and markings. The number 

 of bars in the tail varies, being either six or seven, the distal bar counted, while 

 in the Indian form there are seven or eight bars, and in the Chinese G. c. wkitelyi 

 the bars number six or seven. (Type : ? ad., Five-Finger Mts., 25. iv. 1899, 

 John Whitehead coll.) 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant erroneously called the Hainan form " G. whiteli/i,'' the 

 latter being much larger and paler than both G. c. cuculoides and G. c. persimile. 



luO. Glaucidium brodiei brodiei (Burton). 



NocUia brodiei Burton, P. Z. S. 1830. p. 15-' (" Apud Monies Himalayeuses "). 



4 cJ,J Mt. Wnchi, March 1903, November 1005 (No. 175). 

 ? Cheteriang, January 1904 (No. 175). 



1 cannot sejiarate these specimens from Indian ones. The four males are 

 alike ; they are brownish, wiiile the female is rufous. The wings of the males 

 measure 82-84, those of the female 90 mm. From India we have brownish, 

 blackish and rufous varieties.— The Formosan (i. pardalota is very closely allied 

 to G. brodiei, and should be treated as a subspecies of the latter. It is slightly 

 larger, appears to be more olivaceous, and the sides of the breast are more distinctly 

 and more widely cross-barred, while the marks on the abdomen are not so large, 

 and have more the form of longitudinal spots. Though known to extend to 

 South China, this species appears to be new for Hainan. 



101. Syrnium newarensis subsp. (an caligatus?) 



': Buhu ruligalnx Swinhoe, Ibis 18G3. p. 218 ; id., //'/» 18G4. p. 429 (Formosa). 



2 Si ad., 1 ? ad., 1 ? juv., Mt. Wuchi, October, November 1905 (No. 271). 



It is impossible to say for certain whether these birds belong to caliyatas, 

 without having a series from Formosa to compare. — The specimen from Formosa 

 in the British Museum (the one mentioned in Ibis, 1864, p. 429), said to be a female, 

 has the wing 39 cm. long. In coloration it is very near maingai/i from Malacca, 

 the nnder-surface and disc being very ochraceous. Our Hainan exam[)les are 

 certainly neither S. newarensis newarensis, being too small (the wing of the 

 female about 4 to 6, that of the male about 2 to 4 cm. shorter), nor S. newarensis 

 indranee, which is still smaller than the Hainan examples, and which has 

 the under-surface and disc nearly always very strongly oclii-aceous ; nor is it 

 S. newarensis maingai/i, which is still brighter ochraceous on the under-snrface and 

 disc. Our Hainan birds have the disc pale brownish, like 5. newarensis newarensis, 

 but one has it about as rufous as indranee, the latter specimen having also the 

 underside strongly tinged with ochraceous, and barred more narrowly, while in the 

 others the under-snrface is whitish and broadly barred. Tiie head is very darkly 

 coloured, in fact almost black in our Hainan examples ; but in one of them it is less 



