188 liiiio.viDj!:. 



tiiil dark brown, rather broadly tipped with whitish, and crossed 

 with six other bands of bufi'y wliite, of which two are concealed by 

 the upper tail-coverts ; eyebrow and sides of face dull whitish, all 

 the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown, the ear-coverta 

 washed with fulvous ; cheeks whitish, extending backwards in a 

 large patch behind the ear-coverts, all tlie feathers with concealed 

 bases and narrow shaft-stripes of brown ; throat dusky brown ; rest 

 of under surface deep ochraceous, with broad dark brown centres to 

 the feathers, much broader and more rufous on the flanks ; under 

 tail-feathers uniform ochraceous ; leg-feathers dull whitish ; under 

 ■wing-coverts deep rufous ochre, "with brown centres to the feathers 

 as on the breast, the greater series ashy brown, barred with white 

 on the inner web, exactly in the same manner as the inner lining of 

 the wing, which is ashy brown with lighter brown bars on the inner 

 web, inclining to white towards the base of the quills ; bill black, 

 horn-colour towards the tip ; toes fleshj- brown, covered with coarse 

 3'ellow hairs ; claws black ; iris dark reddish brown. Total length 

 18-5 inches, wing 104, tail 6-5, tarsus i!-65. 

 Hah. New Zealand. 



13. GLAUCIDIUM. ,„ 



Type. 



Glaucidium, Boie, Isis, 182G, p. 970 G. passeriuum. 



Nyctipetes, Swains. Clussif. B. ii. p. 218 G. pei-latum. 



Taenioglaux, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 709 G. radiatum. 



Tffinioptynx, Kauj), I. c. p. 768 G. brodiei. 



Microglaux, Kaup, I. c. p. 709 G. perlatum. 



Mieroptynx, Kaup, Cwitr. Orn. 18.52, p. 106 G. passeriuum. 



Smithiglaux, Bp. Rw. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544 G. capeuse. 

 Phalsenopsis, Bp. I. c. p. 544 G. nanum. 



Wing of Ghnicidiitin pa.s.iennu?it. 



Range. The greater part of the Old World, including the Palas- 

 arctic, Ethiopian, and Indian regions : but not found beyond the 

 Indo-Malayan subregion, and absent in the .\ustro-Malayan sub- 

 region and the Australian region proper. In the New World dis- 



