7. CARINK. 135 



Subsp. n. Carine glaux. 



Stiix noctua, Forsk. Descr. Aiiiin. p. 8. 



Strix passerina, Sonii. Vol/. Effi/pk; i. p. 349. 



Noctua glaux, Suvign. Dcucr. Ilr/i/pfe, Ois. p. 287. 



Strix peraica, VieilL N. Diet. d'Hid. Nat. vii. p. 26 ; rucher. R. Z. 



1849, p. 18. 

 Athene meridionalis, Zes.?. Maw. frO/v(. i. p. 110; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 35 ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 18o2, p. 105, et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 209 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Si//i. p. 100 ; Fritsch, Vikj. Eur. Taf. 13. fig. 7. 

 Noctua passerina, RUpp. Nme Wirb. Vocj. p. 45. 

 Strix noctua meridionalis, Schl. u. Suseyn. Vog. Eur. Taf. 47. fig. 3. 

 Noctua persica, Keys. u. Mas. Wirb. Eur. p. xxxii ; Degl. 8f Gerbe, 



Orn. Eur. i. p. ['J'^. 

 Athene bactriana, JIutkm, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 776. 

 Strix nuniida, Lecaill. Jun. E.vpl. Sci. Alger. Ois. pi. 4. 

 Athene persica, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543 ; Neiot. Ooth. 



Wolley. p. 152; Loche, Expl Sci. Algh: Ois. i. p. 106; Hume, 



Rough Notes, ii. p. 407 ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 30. 

 Noctua veterum meridionalis, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Striges, p. 29 ; id. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 26. 

 Noctua veterum, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 118. 

 Athene glaux, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 39. 

 Carine meridionalis, Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 177. 

 Carine glaux, Irhy, B. Gihr. p. 58 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 

 Carine bactriana, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258*. 



Adult female. General colour pale fawn-brown, mottled all over 

 with white spots, more or less concealed on the back, and plainer on 

 the scapulars and greater wing-coverts, the latter being rather darker 

 brown on their inner webs ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 tipped with white and broadly barred on the inner web with white, 

 this bar not extending across the feathers, but represented on the 

 outer web with a white notch, producing a chequered appearance ; 

 upper tail- coverts pale fawn-brown, rather more rufous than the 

 back, largely spotted with white, which occupies the basal half of 

 the feather ; tail pale fawn-colour, tipped with whitish and crossed 

 with four bands of buflFy white, continuous near the base, the apical 

 bands, however, not completely traversing the feather ; head rather 

 darker fawn-brown than the back, streaked with white down the 

 centre of the feathers, dilating towards the tip into a distinct white 

 spot ; hind neck white, the feathers being mottled with brown, most 

 of the feathers edged and tipped with the latter colour ; facial aspect 

 white, the lores with dark brown shaft-stripes, the ear-coverts also 

 broadly streaked with brown ; cheeks white, continued in a trian- 

 gular patch to behind the ear-coverts ; chin and fore neck pure white, 

 separated from each other by a baud of feathers of a pale rufous fawn- 

 colour; rest of under surface of body pure white, broadly streaked 

 with rufous fawn-colour, these streaks becoming narrower on the 

 abdomen and disappearing on the under tail-coverts ; leg-feathers 

 entirely white ; under wing-coverts white, the inner ones and the 

 axillaries wa.shcd with yellowish, the outer ones streaked with brown, 



* It is quite possible that Hutton's title will turn out to belong to the next 

 species, in which case it will have precedence. 



