13. GLAUCIDIUM. 2(»5 



'^- J"^'- l^- Trinidad. 



"rnKA-y Trinidad. M. A. Bouvier. 



A ■ inv ^V InmA^A. M. A. Bouvier. 



^- ■^"^- '^- Triuidad. M. A. Bouvier. 



Siibsp. y. Grlaucidium ridgwayi. 

 Atliene iufuscata, Sclater, P. Z. S. 185G p 285 

 Glaucidium infiiscatum, Scl. ,f Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 220 • G C Tm.Ur 

 op. at. 1860, p. 220; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. l'. k p 'w " ' 



Orlauciduim jardinii, Scl. Sf Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 220. " 

 Glaucidmni gnoma, Lawr. Ann. Li/c. ]V. Y. ix. p. 1.32 

 Glaucidium phalanoides, Salrin, P. Z. S. 1870 p 217 

 Glaucidium infuscatum, var. guoma, Siclffw. Pr. Post. Soc. N. H. xvi. 



Glaucidium ridgwayi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 5q, 259. 



Brown PHASE. ^c;«7^ Above greyish umber, the back apparently 

 uniform, but exhibiting a few concealed spots of whitish on the feathers 

 being disarranged; the head striped with whitish, rather more indi- 

 stinctly towards the nape ; round the hind neck a whitish collar the 

 markings being somewhat oval in shape and mottled with blackish 

 forming two large black patches on either side of the hind neck • 

 scapulars coloured like the back, but having large oval spots of white 

 near theu- outer margin; wing-covert.s slightly darker brown than 

 the back, the least ones unspotted, the median series with rather 

 larger spots and bars of white or yeUowish white, these markinss 

 much larger and more oval ou the greater series : quills dark brown 

 narrowly barred across with greyish brown, becoming gradually 

 hghter on the outer web and terminating externally in a white snot • 

 upper taU-coverts rather more rufescent than the back with a few 

 concealed whitish spots ; tail black, crossed with six rows of white 

 spots, mcUmng to bars which are not continued across the feather • 

 lores whitish, slightly varied with blackish bristles ; ear-coverts 

 grepsh umber like the head, slightly streaked or mottled with a few 

 yellowish white cross bars ; fore part of cheeks whitish, as also the 

 chm, which is separated from the white fore neck by a band of dark 

 brown ; rest of under surface white, streaked with greyish umber a 

 yery little, if any, darker than the back, the sides of the upper breast 

 more uniform, varied with a few whitish spots ; leg-feathers dark 

 brown on the outer aspect and mottled with white, the inner aspect 

 much whiter ; under tail-coverts white, with very broad streaks of 

 dark brown ; under wing-coveri^s yellowish, with small dark brown 

 markings near the edge of the wing, the greater series yellowish at 

 base, dark brown at tip, resemlding the inner lining of the quills 

 which are dark brown with yeUowish bars on the inner web Total 

 length 6 inches, wing 3-6, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-8. 



Ze.9s adult (? female). Browner in all respects than the forc^oin.' 

 descnption, the head being partly streaked and partly spotted Vith 

 duU white or pale rufous ; tail rufous, crossed 'n-ith nine bands of 

 brown of about equal width with the rufous interspaces. These 

 tad-bands are sometimes eight and sometimes nine in number, and 



