7. CAKINE. 133 



b. Breast and abdomen barred biama, p. 138. 



c'. General colour above greyish brown, the white 

 spots large and distinct ; bands on tail Ji re. 

 a. hrama. 

 d. General colour slaty brown, the white spots 

 very small ; bands on tail six. /3. pukhra. 



1. Carine noctua. 



Jjittle Owl, Edwards, Gleanings, pi. '2'2S. 



La Petite Chouette ou La Cheveche, Briss. Orn. i. p. 514. 



Strix noctua, Scop. Ann. i. p. 22 ; Nauni. Vo(/. Deutscld. i. p. 493, 



pi. 48. fig. 1 ; Schl. 11. Susem. Vor/. Eur. Taf. 47. tigs. 1, 2 ; Nordm. 



inDemid. Voi/. Russ. Merid. iii. p. 10!) ; BaiUy, Orn. Sav. i. p. 194 ; 



Keidem. Onze Vogeh, pi. 1. 

 La Cheveche, Bujf. PL Enl. pi. 439. 

 Strix passerina, Gvi. S. N. i. p. 296; Temni. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 92; 



RoiLv, Orn. Pror. i. p. 78, pi. 53 ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 39 ; 



Varr. Brit. B. i. p. 142. 

 Strix psilodactyla, Xilss. Skand. Faun. 1st ed. p. 88. 

 (StrLx nudipes, NiUs. Orn. Stiec. i. p. 68. 

 Athene passerina, Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 549; Brelwi, Viiy. Dent^chl. 



p. 110. 

 Carine noctua, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 29; Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. 



p. 178 ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 58 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 

 Noctua passerina, Cur. Beqne An. i. p. 345; Less. Traite d'Orn. 



p. 103; Selby, III. Brit. Orn. i. p. 107, pi. 26; Stevenson, B. Korf. 



i. p. 59. 

 Surnia noctua, Bp. Oss. Begn. Anim. Cur. p. 48 ; Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. 



Eur. p. xxxii ; Borygr. Vvydf. Norddeutschl. p. 64. 

 Scotophilus nudipes, Jard. Brit. B. i. p. 274. 

 Noctua nudipes, Gould, B. Eur. i. pi. 48 ; Hewits. Eyys Br. B. i. p. 67, 



pi. xix. tig. 3. 

 Athene noctua, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. ^- X. Am. p. 6 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 34; Bp. Consp. i. p. 39; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852,"p. 105, 



et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 210 ; Schl. Yog. Xederl. pi. 4:} ; Stricld. Orn. Syn. 



p. 159; Fritsch. Yoq. Eur. tab. 11. fig. 2: Jaub. et Barth. Laponi. 



Rich. Orn. p. 77 ; 'Xewt. OofJi. Wolley. p. 151 ; Gould. B. Gt. Br. 



pi. xxxvii. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 39 ; Salrad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. 



p. 29 ; Sharpe df Dresser, B. Eur. part iv. 

 Symia psilodactyla, Macgill. Brit. B. iii. p. 417. 

 Athene psilodactyla, Breltm, Xaum. 1855, p. 270. 

 Athene ludigena, Brehm, Xa{im. 1855, p. 270. 

 Noctua veterum, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 28 ; id. Revue Accipitr. 



p. 26. 

 Noctua minor, Degl. ^- Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 122. 



AditJt. Above brown, everywhere mottled with oval white spots 

 to the feathers, more or less concealed on the back, and more distinct 

 on the scapular feathers ; wing-coverts brown, marked in the same 

 manner as the back with oval spots of white, those on the greater 

 series larger and more distinct ; primary-coverts brown, notched on 

 the outer web with white, these markings slightly tinged with 

 rufous ; quills brown, barred Avith paler brown, shading off into 

 whitish on the inner web, and exhibiting a whitish notch on the 

 outer one, producing a chequered appearance ; upper tail-coverts 



