13S BCBONID^. 



Ohs. The typical specimen of Athene plamipes, which Mr. Swinhoe 

 has lent me, differs, as he has himself pointed out, from C. yluiix 

 in ha\-ing the toes more feathered. Latterly M. Severtzoff has de- 

 scribed, from Turkestan, a small Owl, which he separates as Athene 

 orientaJls, on the self-same characters {ef. Dresser, I. c). With re- 

 gard to Mr. Blanford's remarks on the Thibetan bird from Hodg- 

 son's collection, of which a single example only is to be found in 

 the Museum, he is quite right that Hodgson never published a name 

 for the species. Mr. G. E.. Gray identified it as Athene nucUpes 

 (Nilss.), and he indicates that the name of Athene gymnopus had 

 been given by Hodgson to the bird ; b;it no such name occurs in 

 the list published by the latter gentleman in J. E. Gray's ' Zoolo- 

 gical Miscellany' (/. c), while his drawing of the species (no. 870) 

 bears, in his handwriting, the name of lagopus, evidently much more 

 in accordance with the feathered foot of the bird than nudipes or 

 g)imnopus. As, however, no description of this Thibetan specimen 

 was ever published, the name given by Mr. Swinhoe will have to be 

 used if the species should not ultimately prove to be the true A. bac- 

 triana of Hutton, with which Mr. G. II. Gray identified it. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and Northern China, near Pekin, 

 ranging southwards into Central Asia, Turkestan, and Thibet. 

 a. Ad. St. Thibet. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Carine spilogastra. 



Athene spilogaster, Hcuc/l. J.f. O. I860, p. 15. 

 Noctua spilogastra, Heugl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. p. 119, pi. 

 Carina spilogastra, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult female. Above of a pale smoky rufous colour, varied with 

 •whitish spots and bars, \he white colour washed with buff; tail- 

 feathers whitish, with six or seven smoky rufous bands ; the face, 

 lower part of breast and abdomen white, slightly washed with buff, 

 and with scattered obsolete rufescent streaks ; upper breast varied 

 with the same colour ; tarsi, which are feathered in front, white ; 

 the toes above covered with white bristly hairs ; under wing-coverts 

 entirely whitish ; biU yellowish ; cere and nails, which are very 

 short, blackish horn-colour ; iris yellow ; naked orbits blackish ; toes 

 fleshy grey. Total length 7*6 inches, wing 5-5-1, tail 2-9-3, tarsus^ 

 1-1-25. {Heuglin.) 



Hah. Abyssinian coastland. 



3. Carine brama. 



Strix brama, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 08. 



Noctua brama, Stephens, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 115; Less. Traite, 



p. 103 ; Schl. Mtis. P.-B. Striges, p. 29; id. Revue Accipitr. p. 27. 

 Surnia brama, Bp. Oss. Jtegn. An. Cuv. p. 58. 

 Noctua indica, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 115. 

 Noctua tarayensis, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 175. 

 Athene indica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 457. 

 Athene brama, Blyth, Ann. N. H. xii. p. 93 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 34, 



pi. 12. tig. 3 ; Cass. Cat. Strigider Phihtd. Mtis. p. 14 : Blyth, Cat. 



