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parts washed with yellowish brown, the tarsal plumes slightly 

 marked with browu ; under tail-coverts white, washed with brown 

 at their tips ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, those on the edge 

 of the wing pure white, the centre ones longitudinally streaked with 

 dark brown, the greater series whitish at liase, ashy brown at tip, 

 thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is ashy brown 

 barred with white ; bill yellow ; feet brownish yellow, talons blackish 

 brown ; iris bright yellow. Total* length G'S inches, wing 4-15, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult male. Differs from the female only in being smaller. The 

 statement made by some writers that the male has more of an ashy 

 grey shade above than the female docs not seem to me to hold good ; 

 for the bird before me is quite as grey as any old male. The bars 

 on the tail are seven in number. Total length 6-2 inches, wing 3-85, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-6. 



Young male. Much browner than the adults and characterized by 

 an absence of spots, the latter being apparently gradually assumed ; 

 the white wing-patch represented only by a few oval spots, and the 

 bands on the quills and tail very narrow and dusky white ; under- 

 neath the stripes on the flanks are very much broader. 



Hah. The whole of Northern and Central Europe. 



Germany. 



Carniola. Purchased. 



Carniola. Piircliased. 



Gardtijo, SNveden, March 15, J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



1863 ( IMieehcriyht). 



Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 10, Piu'chased. 



1873. 



Falun, Sweden, Jan. 1, 1873. Purchased. 



Southern Ural {Dr. Strader). II. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Glaucidiuin siju. 



Noctua siju, D'Orh. in Ramon de la Sayra II, N. Cuba, Ois. p. 33, 



pi. iii. 

 Athene siju, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Cass. Cat. Striffidee Pkilad. Mus. 



p. 13 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Nyctale siju, Bp. Consp. i. 54 ; Stn'ckl. Orn, Syn. p. 177. 

 Strix havaneusis, Licht. Mas. BeroL, vnde 

 Glaucidiuin havanense, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 103. 

 Glaucidium siju, Cab. J.f. O. 1855, p. 59 ; Ilidyw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. 



H. 1873, p. 65; Scl. ^- Sale. Nomencl. Av. p. 117; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1875, p. 59. 



Adult. Above dark brown, varied with small streaks and broader 

 bars of deep ochre, especially distinct on the scapulars, where the 

 bars incline to whitish on their outer margin ; wing-coverts dark 

 browu, rather deeper than the back, the least ones with small 

 ochraceous spots, the median and greater series with large ovate 

 spots of white ; quills dark brown, barred with lighter brown, on 

 the outer part of which bars are several spots of bufty white, the 

 quills for the most part notched with white on the inner web, more 

 distinctly on the secondaries : upper tail-covcrts rather more ashy 



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