7. CARINE. 137 



/. 2 ^d. sk. Wilderness of Judea. Canou Tiistram [C.]. 



in. S ad. sk. Beersheba. Canou Tristram [CJ. 



M. Ad. St. Ruins of Suza. K. Loftus, Esq. [P.t. 



o. $ ad. sk. Sliiraz, Persia. Major St. John [C.J. 



7>, d' ad. sk. Niriz, east of Shiraz, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



June 2, 1872. 



Subsp. ft. Carine plumipes. 



Atheue nudipe.«, G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm.i^-c. NepalHodffs. p.50(184GJ. 



Strix noctua, Radde, lieis. iSibir. p. 12-3. 



Athene noctua, var., Dyhoicsk. (ij- Parv. J.f. O. 1868, p. 331. 



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



Atheue plumipes, Sw'inh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 448, et 1871, p. 342 ; 



Taczan. J. f. O. 1872, p. .349. 

 Atheue persica, David, N. Arch. Mas. vii. JStdl. p. 4 (1871, nee VieUl.). 

 Atheue uoctua orientalis, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63. 

 Athene orieutalis, S/iarpe, Zool. Record, x. p. 17. 

 ? Carine glaux, Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 110. 

 Carine plumipes, S/iarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult (type of species). General colour deep fawn-brown, the 

 head streaked with bufly whitish, all the streaks dilating towards 

 their tips, some of which have a subterminal spot ; hind neck largely 

 mottled with white, many of the feathers broadly barred across with 

 white, the outer webs of many of them also of the latter colour ; 

 interseapulary region tolerably uniform, the white spots being con- 

 cealed, but very distinct and oval in shape on the scapulars ; wing- 

 coverts coloured hke the back, and distinctly spotted with Avhite, 

 the spots on the median and greater coverts larger and more oval in 

 form ; primary-coverts dusky brown, barred across with fawn-colour ; 

 quills brown, rather more dusky at tip, barred across with lighter 

 and more rufous brown, the ends of the feathers greyish white, aU 

 the rufescent bars shading off into a white spot on the outer web, 

 and giving a chequered appearance to the wing ; upper tail-coverts 

 fawn-colour, the bases Avhite : tail pale fawn-colour, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with five rather irregular bands of fulvous 

 fawn ; lores pure white, as also a sm;ill superciliary- streak, the 

 former with black shaft-lines ; ear-coverts fawn-colour, with whitish 

 shaft-streaks, the feathers under the eye whitish ; cheeks and throat 

 white, extending in a triangular patch backwards below the ear- 

 coverts ; lower part of fore neck white, separated from the throat 

 by a band of ruiescent feathers mottled with whitish ; rest of under 

 surface fawu-buff, inclining to white on the centre of the body, 

 streaked with rufous brown, the centres to the feathers very broad 

 and distinct on the breast, much narrower on the sides of body, and 

 absent altogether on the lower flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts ; 

 leg-feathers whitish, Hght fawn on their outer aspect ; under wing- 

 coverts whitish, with a few slight markings of brown here and there, 

 the lower series whitish at base, ashy brown at tip, and thus re- 

 sembling the inner lining of the quiUs, which are pale ashy brown, 

 barred with buffy white on the inner web. Total length 8 inches, 

 wing 6-1. tail 3-4, tarsus I'l.j. {Mus. R. Swi)ihoe.) 



