8. HETEROGLAUX. 141 



throat-band is more strongly marked. The tail exhibits five or six 

 narrow transverse bands, or traces of these, against four or five far 

 broader and more distinctly marked bands in C. brama. The sca- 

 pulars, too, seem to be generally less barred and more spotted than 

 is usually the case in Indian specimens. 



_" Generally the birds have a very different appearance, and, I 

 think, -would be separated by any one who examined a scries of 

 both ; but no mere description will sufficiently explain this diff'er- 

 ence, and the very marked difference in size is the character that 

 must be first relied on for separating tlie species." 



Ifdh. Burmah and Pegu. 

 fi. Imni. sk. Tonghoo, Burmah. Purchased. 



8. HETEROGLAUX. 

 Ileteroglaux, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 4G0. 



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Wing and nostril oi Hcterof/laiu- b/ewiUi (from a skin). 

 Range. Central Provinces of India. 



1. Heteroglaiix blewitti. 



Ileteroglaux blewitti, Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 467 ; Ball, op. cit. ii. p. 382. 



Adult female. Above ashy brown, nearly uniform, excepting for a 

 few half-concealed white bars on the hind neck and scapulars, rather 

 more distinct on the latter, some of them being entirely white on 

 the outer web ; wing-coverts a little darker than the back, with a 

 few spots of white, larger and more distinct on the greater and 

 median series, the bastard wing notched externally with white, and 

 the primary-coverts also spotted with the same ; quills dark brown, 

 barred across with lighter brown, shading off" into white notches on 

 the margins of both webs, very large on the inner, and producing a 

 chequered appearance on the outer web ; upper tail-coverts a little 

 darker than the back, and spotted with white ; tail dark brown, 

 tipped with white, and crossed with four other bands of white be- 

 sides ; frontal plumes, a broad eyebrow, and feathers round the eye 

 white, the lores with blackish hair-like shafts ; the ear-coverts ashy 

 brown, barred with whitish ; throat, fore neck, and cheeks white, 

 with a tolerably broad bar of dark brown feathers across the lower 

 throat ; centre of the abdomen and leg-feathers pure white, the 

 breast clouded ^vith grey, with more or less concealed white bars, 

 the sides of the body distinctly barred with dark brown, the under 

 taU-coverts white, with remains of brown bars near the tips ; under 



