13. GLAUCIDIFM. 191 



spots of white ; upper tail-coverts rufous, crossed Avith a few obsolete 

 bands of browu ; tail dark browu, tipped with fulvous white and 

 crossed with ten bars of rufous ; lores and feathers round the ej'e 

 whitish, the former obscured by blackish bristles ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts dull brown, streaked with huffy white ; sides of neck 

 rufous like the head, but mottled with W'hite bases to the feathers ; 

 cheeks and chin pure white, the latter succeeded by a band of dark 

 brown across the throat and followed by a large white fore neck ; 

 rest of under surface white, streaked with dark brown, the sides of 

 the breast rufous brown, mottled with whitish spots ; sides of body 

 ashy brown ; thighs ochraceous, varied with small rufous brown 

 bars ; tarsal plumes white, spotted with brown ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish white slightly streaked with brown, the greater series yel- 

 lowish white at base, dark brown at tips, thus resembling the inner 

 lining of the wing, which is ashy brown, barred with white and in- 

 clining to yellowish white near the Ijasc of the inner web ; iris 

 orange. Total length 8 inches, wing 3-85, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Eathcr larger than the male, shaded with ashy 

 grey on the back and scapulars, this being probablj' only the sign of 

 the adult bird and existing in both sexes; bars on tail eleven. 

 Total length 8-G inches, wing 4-4, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-95. 



Obs. The fuU-plumaged birds are much greyer on the back and 

 have the head minutely spotted with ochraceous instead of being 

 streaked. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being more uniform above and 

 exhibiting less of the streaks on the head ; the upper surface rather 

 more grey, and the spots and bars on the hind neck ochre ; tail deep 

 rufous, with nine dark brown cross bands, the subterminal one 

 broader. Eelow, the breast is browner with very few spots, and the 

 streaks on the flanks very broad and merging together. 



Hab. Chili and Patagonia. 



a. Juv. st. Port Famine. Capt. King [C.]. Type of 



species. 



b. Ad. St. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Province of Colcbagua, July E. C. Heed, Esq. [C.]. 



1870. 



d. S ad. sk. Rio Negro, Patagonia, May W. II. Hudson, Esq. [C.]. 



1871. 



e. Ad. sk. South America. 



f. Juv. St. South America. Specimen figured in Gray 



and Mitchell's ' Genera ' 



(;. c). 



2. Glaucidium passerinum. 



Strix passerina, Linn. S. N. i. p. 133 ; Nik. Oni. Siiec. i. p. 69, pi. 3 ; 



Schl. u. Sunem. Voy, Eur. Taf. 43. fig. 2 ; Sundev. Sv, Foyl. pi. xxv. 



tig. 0. 

 La Cheveche, Buff. Fl. Enl. 439. 

 Strix tengmalmi, var., Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 10. 

 Strix pusilla, Daiul. Traite, ii. p. 205 ; Bree, B. Eur. i. p. 124, iv. 



p. 201. 



