I'A. HLAUCIDIUM. 203 



Subsp. fl. Glaucidium phalanoides. 



Strix phalffiiioides, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 206. 



Phalaenopsis plialsenoides, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 



Glaucidiuni feiTugineiiin, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 80. 



Athene infiiscata, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 557. 



Athene phalsenoides, Gray, Iland-l. i. p. 42. 



Beotvn phase. Adult. Above deep sepia- (almost blackish) brown, 

 the head profusely marked %vith small rounded or minute triangular 

 dots of fulvous white ; the back uniform brown, with scarcely any 

 concealed white dots ; round the hind neck an indistinct collar of 

 ochraceous buff, plentifully intermingled with black, with the usual 

 two nape-patches of the latter colour ; scapulars scarcely spotted at 

 all, but exhibiting a few large white spots near their tips ; wing- 

 coverts a little browner than back and nearly uniform, only the 

 greater series -with a few distinct Avhite spots towards the tip of the 

 feather ; the primary- coverts uniform brown ; quills dark brown, 

 indistinctly barred with ashy brown, the bars being indicated on 

 the outer web by a small white spot, inclining to bars on the secon- 

 daries ; upper tail-coverts uniform with back, and indistinctly 

 spotted with white ; tail blackish, crossed with six rows of yellowish 

 spots ; lores whitish, obscured somewhat by blackish shaft-stripes ; 

 white spots on side of crown rather larger, and forming a narrow 

 eyebrow; sides of face brownish, with a few streaks and bars of 

 dull fulvous ; chin and cheeks white, separated from the white fore 

 neck by a baud of dark brown feathers, plentifully mottled with ful- 

 vous spots ; rest of under surface white, broadly streaked with 

 chocolate-brown, the white markings on the flanks rather larger 

 and more oval ; the sides of the body, and especially of the upper 

 breast, more uniform chocolate-broT\Ti, with very distinct white 

 spots, rather ovate in form ; under tail-coverts white, with narrow 

 streaks of dark brown ; under wing-coverts yellowish, strongly 

 mottled with dark brown round the bend and near the edge of tliQ 

 wing, the greater series yellowish at base, dark brown at tip, re- 

 sembling more the inner lining of the wing, which is dark brown, 

 with yellowish white bars on the inner webs of the quiUs ; biU 

 yellowish white ; feet yellowish white ; iris yellow. Total length 

 6"5 inches, wing 3-9, tail 2-65, tarsus 0-75. 



RxjFous PHASE. Adult. Above dusky ferruginous chestnut, the 

 back and scapulars margined with more or less concealed spots of 

 light ochraceous, the head with numerous narrow stripes of rufous 

 ochre ; nuchal collar whitish, mottled more or less with black and 

 relieved by the usual patches on each side of the hind neck, these 

 being more indistinct than in some of the allied species, the upper 

 back mottled with large ovate spots of yellowish ochre below the 

 nuchal collars ; scapulars coloured like the back and spotted in the 

 same manner and exhibiting very distinct oval spots of white on 

 their outer margin ; upper wing- coverts also uniform with the back 

 and minutely spotted with lighter rufous, the greater series ha\"ing 

 large terminal spots of white like the scapulars ; primary-coverts 



