13. GLAtJCIDItlM. 199 



fore neck pure white ; rest of under surface white, distinctly streaked 

 with orange-rufous, the upper hreast and sides of the body entirely 

 of the latter colour ; under tail-coverts white, with a few brown 

 streaks towards their tips ; under wing-coverts whitish, marked ^\-ith 

 brown, thus forming a longitudinal streak down the wing-coverts 

 and inclining to yellowish white on the inner coverts, the greater 

 series yellowish white at base, dark brown at tip, thus resembling 

 the inner lining of the wing, which is dark brown barred with lighter 

 brown and with yellowish white near the base ; leg-feathers orange- 

 buff^ Total length 6 inches, wing 3-5, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Youmj. Differs from the adult in being much more uniform on the 

 head, where there are few or no spots. The back is a shade more 

 chocolate, so that the rufous collar does not stand out so conspicuously ; 

 quills crossed with eight rufous bars, paler on the outer web, but not 

 showing such distinct white spots as in tlio adult. 



Hah. Brazil. 



a. Juv. St. South America. 



b. Ad. St. South America. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



«• Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Ohxussen [P.J. 



/. Ad. sk. Bahia. Dr. Wucherer [C.l 



y- Juv. sk. Bahia. Dr. Wucherer [C.]. 



7. Glaucidium cobanense, (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 



Glaucidiura ridgwayi, juu., Sliarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 47. 

 Glaucidium cobaueiise, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 259, 260. 



Adult. Above duU rufous brown, the head with obscure bars of 

 rufous ; on each side of the hind neck a concealed patch of white 

 feathers, tipped with black ; scapulars rufous brown, with concealed 

 bars of rufous ; primary-coverts blackish, with narrow rufous mar- 

 gins ; quilk blackish, with lighter brown bars, terminating in 

 rounded white spots on the inner web, the outer one minutely 

 spotted with rufous, inclining to buif on the primaries ; tail blackish, 

 with seven spots of white on the inner web, those on the middle 

 feathers washed with i-usty ; lores white, washed with rusty, the 

 shafts developed into long hair-like bristles ; feathers round the 

 eye huffy white; ear-coverts and sides of face brighter rufous, 

 mottled with dark brown ; chin and cheeks bufty white, the fore 

 neck and chest pure white, separated from the chin by a band of 

 bright rufous ; the rest of the under surface of the body white, 

 broadly streaked with rufous brown, the flanks entirely rufous ; leg- 

 feathers white, streaked with dark brown and washed with rufous ; 

 under wing-coverts white, as also the edge of the wing, the inner 

 ones washed with ycUow, those near the edge of thewing dark 

 brown, the lower series white, tipped with bi'own, resembling the 

 inner lining of the -wings, which are ashy brown, barred with white 

 on the inner web ; bill yellow, dusky at base of })oth mandibles ; 

 legs yellow, claws black. Total lengtli ."> inclics, wing 3-4.5, tail 2-55, 

 tarsus 75. 



