192 BrBoxiD.^. 



Strix p^■gnla?a, Bechd. Naturq. Deufschl. iv. p. 978, t. xxiv. ; Wolf 



i^- Meyer, V. D. ii. p. 54, pi. 

 Strix acadica (jiec Gm.), Teinm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 9G ; Naum. Vog. 



Deufschl. i. p. 434, pi. 43. figs. 1, 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Ilapaces, 



pi. 41. 

 Glaucidiuin passerinum, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 976 ; Bp. Con-ip. i. p. 36 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Sun. p. 158 ; Fritscli, VS(/. Ear. tab. 13. fig. 6 ; 



Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 31 ; Sharpe cV Dresser, B. Ear. pt. ii. ; 



Sharpe, Ill's, 1875, pp. 38, 259. 

 Noctua pygiutea, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. part 2, p. 63, 

 Noctua acadica, Carter, Bh/ne Anim. 1829, p. 345. 

 Suruia passeriua, Bp. Oss. B. A. Cuv. p. 51 ; Kei/s. >.S- Bias. Wirb. Eur. 



p. xxxii ; Degl. i§- Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 120 ; Borygr. Yoydf. 



Norddeutschl. p. 64. 

 Noctua passerina, Gotdd, B. Eur. i. pi. 50 : Sold. 3fus. P.-B. Striges, 



p. 41. 

 Athene passerina, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; id. Hatid-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Micropteryx passerinum, Kaup, Contr. Orn, 1852, p. 107 ; id. Tr. Z. 



S. iv. p. 213. 

 Glaucidiuin microrhynclium, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 273. 

 Glaucidium pygiutBum, id. I. c. p. 273. 



Adult female. Above umber-brown, with a distinct ashy grey 

 shade ou the head, back, and scapulars ; the whole of the upper 

 parts varied with spots of yellowish white, inclining to small bars on 

 the back, all the spots somewhat relieved by a continuous dark 

 brown margin, but many of them concealed ; occiput more plainly 

 varied with fulvous white spots ; the hind neck aud wig strongly 

 mottled with dull ochraceous spots, forming an indistinct collar ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, washed like the scapulars with 

 rufous brown, the fulvous white spots rather larger and the median 

 coverts pure white, forming a large longitudinal patch of white on 

 the upper part of the wing ; quills dark brown, stronglj* washed with 

 rulbus brown from the base upwards, as also are the concealed 

 greater coverts, all barred with lighter brown, inclining to white on 

 outer web and producing a spotted appearance ; the secondaries more 

 ashy grey like the back, barred with lighter brown, the white spots 

 larger and forming small bars on the outer web, thus more resem- 

 bling the back ; rump uniform with back, the upper tail-coverts 

 washed with rufous brown and varied with concealed bars of white ; 

 taU rufous brown, tipped and crossed with six narrow bars of white, 

 on each margin of which the colour of the tail is a deeper brown ; 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow whitish, the former varied with black 

 hair-like bristles ; ear-coverts white, crossed with dark brown bars, 

 rather minute in character ; cheeks and chin white ; throat mottled 

 with brown, which extends ou to the sides of the neck, where it is 

 somewhat washed with rufous ; below the brown throat-patch the 

 fore neck is conspicuously white, forming a sort of band ; rest of 

 under surface of body white, tinged with yellowish on abdomen and 

 vent, the sides of the breast and flauks distinctlj- streaked with 

 sepia-brown, the breast clouded aud mottled ^^^th rufous brown, the 

 centre only streaked and the sides of the upper breast entirely rufous 

 brown, mottled with fulvous white spots ; legs whitish, the upper 



