210 BITBONID.!. 



Noctua perlata, Smi'tJi, S.-Afr. Q. Journ. 2nd sei-. no. 4, pt. ] , p. 31;^ ; 



Schl. Mits. P.-B. Striges, p. 30 ; id. Revue Accipitr. p. 30 ; HeuqI. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. \). 120. 

 Nyctipetes perlatus, iSwains. Classif. B. ii. p. 218. 

 Scotophilus perlatu?, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 130. 

 Strix licua, Licht. Verz. Saur/. n. J'oi/. Kaffcrnl. p. 12. 

 Athene perlata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Cass. Cat. Strigidee Philad. 



Mas. p. 15 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 37 ; Strichl. Ottt. Syn. p. 163 ; Hartl. 



Oni. IV.- Afr. p. 17; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 40; Blanf. Geol. cS- 



Zool. Abyss, p. 303 ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 209 ; Gurney in 



Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 37 ; Anfin. ^- Salvad. Viayy. Boyos. p. 37. 

 Microglaux licua, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 7G9; id. Contr. Oni. 1852, 



p. 104. 

 Microglaux perlata, Kaup, ut suprd. 

 Athene licua, Stricld. ^- ScUifer, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 142 ; Strickl. 



Orn. Syn. p. 164 ; Bp. Con-ip. i. p. 37 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 38. 

 Athene pusiUa, Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 14. 

 Athene occipitalis, Ileuf/l. Syst. Uebers. p. 14 ; Gr«y, Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 40. 

 Noctua perlata capensis, Sehl. Mns. P.-B. Striges, p. 37. 

 Strix senegalensis, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 393. 

 Carine perlata, Sharpc, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 77. 

 Glaucidium occipitale, Sharpc, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adult male. Above ashy brown, on the back spotted witb white, 

 more or less concealed, the more conspicuous spots relieved by a 

 small conterminous black mark ; scapulars with a large white patch 

 on their outer webs, forming a conspicuous longitudinal mark on 

 each side of the back ; head and nape rather more ochraccous brown 

 than the back, the forehead spotted, but the crown and vrig barred 

 with white, each bar having a contenninous one of black ; hind 

 neck silvery white, mottled with black near the bases of the feathers, 

 forming a kind of irregular collar, which is succeeded by another 

 one of orange-bufF, which obscures the white spotting on the 

 feathers ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but slightly washed 

 with ochraceous, largely spotted with white on the median and 

 greater series ; quills dark brown, the primaries inclining to ashy 

 at their tips, the secondaries narrowly tipped with white, all the 

 cpiills barred across with light rufous brown, changing to white on 

 the outer web, and thus producing a spotted appearance, the bars 

 becoming fulvous white on the inner web and banding the inner- 

 most secondaries with white ; tail-feathers dark brown, washed with 

 rufous, tipped on the inner web with white, and conspicuously 

 spotted with white on both webs, the spots on the inner one larger 

 and more oval and six in number ; loral plumes, feathers above 

 and below the eye, as well as the sides of the face white, the ear- 

 coverts obsoletely marked with blackish ; chin white ; rest of under 

 surface white, the throat marked with ochraceous brown, the breast 

 almost entirely of the latter colour on the sides, but mottled with 

 more or less concealed spots and bars of white ; the belly, flanks, and 

 sides of body thickly streaked with dark brown, the centre of the 

 body white ; leg-feathers white, slightly mottled with dark brown ; 

 under tail-coverts white, excepting a slight mark of dark brown 



