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than the back, streaked with white longitudinally ; tail brown, crossed 

 with seven (including the one at the tiji) bands of whitish more or 

 less tinged with rufous ; head lighter and more earthy brown than the 

 back, with longitudinal fulvous stripes, somewhat dilated towards 

 the tips of the feathers ; round the hind neck a collar of orange- 

 rufous ; lores and feathers above the eye white, the former obscured 

 by blackish bristles ; ear-coverts duU white, with brown cross bars ; 

 checks, chin, and fore neck whitish, the latter separated by a band 

 of rufous feathers across the lower throat ; rest of under surface 

 white, varied with several longitudinal rows of duU rufous brown 

 spots, either oval or heart-shaped, developing into streaks on the 

 abdomen ; the sides of the breast rufescent, varied with dark brown 

 bars ; under wing-coverts whitish, spotted with brown, the greater 

 series yellowish white at base, brown at tips, thus resembling the 

 inner lining of the wings, which are ashy brown, notched with yel- 

 lowish Avhite on the inner web. Total length 5-8 inches, wing 3-55, 

 tail 2-4, tarsus 0'8. 



Hab. Cuba. 

 a. Ad. st. Cuba. 



4. Glaucidium gnoma. 



Glaucidium gnoma, Waqler, his, 1832, p. 275 ; Vass. B. N. Am. p. 02 ; 

 Cah. J. f. 0. 18C9, p. 207; Sharpe, His, 1875, pp. 38, 259, pi. i. 

 tigs. 1, 2. 



Strix passerinoides, Audubon, Orn. Biogr. v. p. 271. 



Athene gnoma. Gray, Gm. B. p. 35 ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 42. 



Glaucidium iafuscatum, Cass. B. Calif. %■ Texas, p. 189. 



Glaucidium californicum, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, pp. 4, 126. 



Glaucidium passeriuum,var. califoruicum, Ridgtc. Pr. Bost. Suc.N. II. 

 xvi. p. 95 ; id. N.-Am. B. iii. p. 81. 

 Young. Above clear chocolate-brown, perfectly uniform on the 

 interscapular}' region, the scapulars distinctly marked with large 

 rounded or oval spots of rufous ochre on their outer web ; head grey, 

 slightlv tinged with brown and marked on the fore part of the crown 

 with a few narrow ochraceous streaks; the hind neck mottled with 

 white and forming a sort of collar, relieved by two blackish patches 

 on each side of the neck and followed by a second indistinct 

 rufous collar below the white one ; wing-coverts rufous chocolate, 

 varied n'ith half-concealed small bars of rufous, the greater coverts 

 deep brown with oval spots of rufous white ; primarj'-covei'ts uni- 

 form deep brown, quills deep brown, sparsely spotted with rufous 

 on the outer web, the secondaries browner like the back and exter- 

 nally margined and spotted with light rufous ; upper tail-coverts 

 rufous chocolate, indistinctly barred with light rufous ; tail blackish 

 brown, crossed with eight rows of white spots (counting the tenuinal 

 one), these spots not continuous, but obscured by ochraceous and not 

 meeting in the centre of the feather ; lores aud feathers round the 

 eye white ; ear-coverts greyish, washed with rufous and streaked 

 with white ; chin and cheeks white, extending in a distinct patch 

 under the ear-coverts ; throat pure white, separated from the chin 

 by a band of brown feathers mottled with rufous ; breast rufous, 



