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bristles ; ear-covcrts bright rufous, streaked with narrow white 

 shaft-lines ; chin and cheeks white, extending in a patch backwards 

 under the car- coverts ; lower throat pure white, separated from the 

 chin by a baud of rufous ; remainder of under surface rich ochre, with 

 the exception of a few white feathers near the centre of the body ; 

 the sides of the upper breast rufons brown, mottled and barred with 

 rufous, like the back ; the sides of the body also bright rufous, 

 the flanks mottled with patches and bars of dark brown and slightly 

 streaked here and there with the same colour ; leg-feathers bright 

 ochre, minutely barred with brown ; under wing-coverts very deep 

 ochre, as also the edge of the wing, a short distance from which are 

 several blackish spots, the greater series ochraceous at base, ashy 

 black at tip, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, which 

 is blackish, broadly barred with rufous on the inner web, inclining 

 to deep ochre near the base of the inner web. Total length Cinches, 

 wing 3-9, tail 2-55. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being more uniform on the back 

 and in not showing the bars which produce the mottled back in the 

 latter ; the bands on the quills and tail are not perfect, but the dark 

 browTi colour occupies the greater part of the inner webs of the 

 secondaries, extending on to the outer one in a few duskj- blackish 

 notches ; the tail uniform rufous, with a few indistinct blackish 

 markings, principally longitudinal and close to the shaft of the 

 feather. (Xew Granada : j\Ius. Salvin and Godman.) 



Obs. Another young bird in the Museum, obtained by Goering 

 in the SieiTa Nevada, Venezuela, is, in some respects, different 

 from the one above noticed ; for it has the transverse bars on the 

 secondaries complete, and the tail as strongly barred with black, 

 though as irregularly, as in the adult ; but the rest of the upper sur- 

 face is dull rufous chocolate, almost uniform, with the exception of 

 a few narrow and indistinct rufous shaft-lines on the crown ; un- 

 derneath the bird is ochraceous, with no white, but streaked with 

 rufous on the lower parts, the sides of the upper breast and flanks 

 being rufous mottled with brown. 

 Ilab. New Granada and Venezuela. 



a. Ad. sfc. Columbia. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. St. Columbia. M. Ven-eaux. 



c. Juv. st. Columbia. M. Verreaux. 

 d,e,f,g. Ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 

 h. Juv. sk. Bogota. Pmvliased. 



/. Juv. sk. Sierra Nevada, ^'eneznola. M. A. Goering [C.]. 



10. Glaucidium perlatum. 



La Chevecbette perlee, Levaill. Ois. (rAfr. vi. pi. 284 ; Sunder. Cn't. 



om Levaill. p. 55. 

 Pearl Owl, Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 3G6. 

 Strix perlata, Fieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vii. p. 26. 

 Strix occipitalis, Temm. VI. Col. i. pi. u4. 

 Noctua occipitalis, Ste.ph. Gen. Zoot. xiii. pt. 2, p. G32. 

 Suruia perlata, Bp. Oss. R. A. Ciiv. p. 58. 

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