13. GLArciDiuji. 207 



tail-coverts like the back, but mottled with distinct streaks and bars 

 of pale rufous ; tail rufous, crossed with eight bars of clear brown • 

 lores brown, the shafts terminating in blackish bristles ; sides of 

 face rufous, narrowly streaked with huffy white ; fore part of 

 cheeks aud chiu pure white, separated from" the white tore neck by 

 a rufous band not very distinct but slightly mottled with pale 

 ochraccous spots ; rest of under surface white, broadly streaked 

 with rufous, the streaks on the sides of the body broader and more 

 obscure ; the sides of the breast nearly uniform, with a few ochraceous 

 sppts ; leg-feathers clear rufous externally, white internally ; under 

 tail-coverts white, streaked with rufous ; under wing-coverts yel- 

 lowish, those along the outer edge of the wing white, with a few 

 brown markings, the greater series yellowish at base, duU brown at 

 tip, not distinguishable from the inner lining of the wing, the inner 

 webs of the feathers being barred with yellowish inclining to rufous 

 near the tips of the feathers. 



Hah. From the llio Grande southwards through Central America 

 to Veragua. 



«• Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



0. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



^- ^d- St. Guatemala. John Gould, Esq. 



rf,c. Ad. sk. Costa Rica. Dr. van Patten fC.]. 



/, g,h, t. Ad. sk. Costa Rica. Purchased. 



f Juv.sk. Honduras. Purchased. 



'■ ^*1- sk. Veragua. M. E. Arce [C.]. 



9. Glaucidium jardinii. 

 Phalfenopsis, sp., Sc/ater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 134. 

 Phalrenopsis jardinii, Bp. C. H. xli. p. 6.54. 

 Glaucidium jardinii, Cab. J. f. O. 1864), p. 208; Iii'(7t/iv. Pr. Bust 



Sov. X. If. xvi. p. 99 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 43, 2u9. 

 Noctua jardinii, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Bevue Avcipitr. p. 29. 

 Glaucidium laugsbergii, Bidyn: Pr. Post. Sue. x\i. p. 98 (nee Pp.). 



Brovts phase. Yoinif/. Above reddish brown, the head more 

 earthy brown, but the whole of the upper surface almost entirely 

 uniform, excepting a few concealed rufous oehre spots on the inter- 

 scapulary region, changing to fulvous bars on the outer scapulars ; 

 round the hind neck an indistinct collar of ochraceous buff, with 

 some of the feathers whitish, nearly all of them tipped with black, 

 which is more distinct on the sides of the hind neck ; wing-coverts 

 rather darker than the back, minutely spotted with rufous ochre, the 

 greater series plainly spotted and barred with ochraceous buff; 

 quills blackish, barred across with the same reddish brown as the 

 back, paler and more ochraceous on the inner web and exhibiting 

 paler spots of the same on the outer secondaries, whitish on the 

 primaries ; tail black, crossed with five (one concealed) rows 

 of rounded white spots, without including the one at tlie tip of the 

 inner web ; lores and a distinct eyebrow whitish, the latter washed 

 with ochre, the former obscured by blackish bristles in front of the 

 eye ; ear-coverts brown, with narro\v whitish shaft-lines and barred 



