190 BU'RONIB.E. . 



b. Head rejjularly barred across. 



d'. Iliud neck fulvescent, with two lateral black | "^Lfp." 214. 



patches forming a collar ]i,,lvaticuvi, -p. 215. 



e'. Hind neck regularly barred like the head and 

 the rest of the upper surface. 

 f". Back rufous, with very slight indicia- 

 tions of dark cross bars ; no longitudinal 

 white shoulder-strealf along the scapu- 

 lars or white bar on the wing-coverts. 

 <■'. Belly white, naiTowly streaked with 



black castanonotum, p. 215. 



f^. Belly wliite, broadly streaked with 



chestnut castanopterum, p. 21(>. 



ff"'. Back greyish or fulvous, barred across 

 with black. 



o*. Size small: bands on tail nine or ten \ , j, •'"' " oio 

 ^ I malabaricum, p. zlo. 



A*. Size larger : bands on tail not more j cuculoides, p. 219. 



than seven | zchitelyi, p. 222. 



i^. Size larger : bands on tail fourteen . . capense, p. 223. 



1. Glaucidium nanum. 



Strix nana, Kinrj, Zool. Jonrn. iii. p. 427. 



Glaucidium nanum, Boie, Jsis, 182G, p. 970; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 103, et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 202; Hwtl. Naum. 1855, p. 209; Biirni. 



T)i. Bras. ii. p. 146; id. Reis. La Plata St. ii. p. 441 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 338; Scl. Sf Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 188; Hmlson, P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 549 ; Scl. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 117 ; Ridgiv. Pr. 



Bost Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 104 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 41, 259. 

 Athene ferox, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 109 (ncc Vieill.). 

 Athene nana, Gray S,- Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 35, pi. 12 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 37 ; Hombr. ^ Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. p. 54 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 173; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Noctua nana, Gay, Hist. CJiile, i. p. 24G ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, 



p. 31. 

 Athene leucolaima, Bp. Consp. i. p. 40 (ex Hombr. 4- Jacq. Voy. Atl, 



pi. 4. figs. 2, 3). 

 Strix chileusis, Licht. MS. in Mus. Berol. et Nomencl. Av. p. 8 (descr. 



nulla). 

 Phalsenopsis nana, Bp. C. R. xli. p. G54 (1855). 

 rhaliienopsis leucolaima, id. t. c. p. 654. 



Adult male. Above dull brown with somewhat of a reddish tint, 

 the back mottled with concealed spots and bars of ochraceous buff; 

 the scapulars shaded with ashy grey, mottled with ochraceous buff 

 spots, the outermost white on the external web, forming a conspi- 

 cuous longitudinal patch : head rather more rufous than the back 

 and longitudinally streaked with ochraceous buff shaft-stripes ; 

 round the hind neck a whitish collar, relieved by black markings, 

 developing into two large patches, one on each side of the hind 

 neck ; wing-coverts rather darker than the back, and very sparingly 

 spotted with ochraceous buff, the greater series with large white oval 

 spots bordered with blackish near the tip ; quills dark brown banded 

 with rufous, the primaries and inner secondaries chequered with 



