214 BUBONIDiE. 



measured above are any thing more than the male and female of one 

 and the same species. 

 Hab. Himalayas. 



a. Ad. st. Himalaya Mountains. Zoological Society. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Himalaya Mountains. Purchased. 



d. Jiiv. sk. Himalaya Mountains. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Darjiliug. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]- 

 /. Ad. sk. Nepal (Secies). J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



(/, h, i. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.l. 



/, m. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



n. Juv. sk. Assam. J. GoiUd, Esq. [P.]. Type 



of Athene mintitilla. 



13. Glaucidium pardalotum. 



Athene pardalota, Swinhoe, Ibis, 18G3, p. 216 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 40 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 343. 

 Glaucidium pardalotum, Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 259. 



Adult. Head umber-brown, thickly dotted with ochraceous spots 

 on the fore part of the crown, the hind part and the nape with 

 ochraceous bars ; round the hind neck a tolerably distinct collar of 

 clear ochraceous feathers barred with black, the latter colour being 

 very distinct on the sides of the hind neck ; rest of the upper sur- 

 face ochraceous brown, everywhere distinctly barred with bright 

 ochraceous, most of these bars with a conterminous black margin ; 

 upper tail-coverts spotted with ochraceous ; tail blackish brown, 

 tipped with ochraceous and crossed with six other bars of the 

 same colovir ; scapulars brown like the back, distinctly barred 

 across with bright ochraceous, the outermost white for apical half, 

 with a terminal bar of black ; quUls dark brown, barred with ochra- 

 ceous and slightly washed with the same colour, the bars very 

 much broader on the greater series ; quills blackish, the primaries 

 with a few tiny spots of ochraceous, the secondaries narrowly tipped 

 with ochraceous, the spots on the outer web larger than on the 

 primaries ; lores and a small eyebrow white, the shafts of the former 

 produced into long hair-like bristles ; sides of face blackish bi'own, 

 spotted with ochraceous ; chin and cheeks white, the latter form- 

 ing a large triangular patch on the sides of the.'neck, and sepa- 

 rated from the white fore neck by a band of dark brown feathers 

 spotted with light ochraceous ; centre of the body pure white, the 

 belly streaked with light brown, the sides of the body ochraceous 

 brown, the sides of the upper breast barred with light ochraceous ; 

 leg-feathers dark brown ; under tail-coverts white, vrith a few narrow 

 brown streaks ; under wing-coverts white, the inner ones washed 

 with yellow ; a few brown spots near the outer edge of the wing, 

 the greater series yellowish at base, ashy brown at tip, like lining of 

 the quills, which are ashy brown, barred on the inner web with yel- 

 lowish white. Total length 6 inches, wing 3-45, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-75. 

 (Mus. 11. 8winhoc.) 



Obs. This species is extremely close to G. brodiei, and is said by 

 Mr. ywiiihoe to differ from that bird by having the belly spotted with 



