212 BUBONIDJ;. 



wliite at base, resembling the lining of the quills, which are ash)' 

 brown, yellowish at base, the inner webs also barred with yellowish ; 

 bill yellowish, greenish towards the base ; feet yellow. Total length 

 7-5 inches, wing 4-05, tail 3, tarsns 0"75. 

 Hah. South America [?]. 



a. Ad. sk. " South America." W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 



Type of species. 



12. Glaucidium brodiei. 



Noetua brodiei, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 152; Sc7d. Mns. P.-B. 



Striges, p. 85. 

 Noetua tubiger, Hudqs. As. Res. xix. p. 175; id. J. A. S. B. vi. 



p. 309. 

 Athene brodiei, Bhith, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 163 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 40 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 40 ; Ilorsf. 



^- Moore, Cat. B. Mns. E. I. Co. i. p. 66 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p^l69 ; 



Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 40 ; Gould, B. Asia, part xxii. ; Swinh. 



P. Z.& 1871, p. 343. 

 Athene badia, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. 

 T.'enioptyux brodiei, Kanp, Ms, 1848, p. 768; id. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 104 ; id. Tr. Z. 8. iv. p. 206 ; Hume, Nests and Eyys Ind. B. i. 



p. 72. 

 Glaucidium brodiei, Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 146; Hume, Rouyh Notes, 



ii. p. 417; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 

 Athene miuutilla, Gould, B. Asia, part xxii. 



Adidt (grey phase). Above dull greyish brown, everywhere nar- 

 rowly banded with white ; the head greyer than the back, and rather 

 more broadly banded, the forehead and sides of the latter very mi- 

 nutely dotted with white ; hind neck surrounded by a kind of ful- 

 vous collar, the feathers being edged with fulvous ; on each side of 

 the hind neck a black patch ; scapulars rather largely marked with 

 white on the outer web, forming a tolerably distinct shoulder-patch ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, the white bars rather wider 

 apart ; primar3'-coverts uniform blackish bi'own ; quills blackish 

 brown, the secondaries tipped with whitish, the primaries with tiny 

 notches of white on the outer web, these l>eing larger on the secon- 

 daries, and taking the form of bars on the innermost ; upper tail- 

 coverts dark brown, bari'ed and spotted with white ; tail dark brown, 

 very narrowly tipped with whitish, and crossed with seven other 

 bands of white ; lores and a distinct eyebrow ^\•hite, the former 

 obscured by black hair-iike bristles ; ear-eoverts dark brown, barred 

 and spotted with whitish ; cheeks white, extending backwards 

 behind the ear ; chin and fore neck white, separated by a band of 

 dark brown, minutely barred with white, drawn across to the sides 

 of the neck, which the band resembles in colour ; rest of under sur- 

 face white, with large terminal spots of brown, the flanks banded 

 with brown ; sides of breast brown, banded with white ; under 

 tail-coverts spotted with brown at the tip ; leg-feathers brown, with 

 a few minute bars of white, the anterior face of the tarsus white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, the inner ones yellowish, with a few 



