i;}. GLAUCIDIUJM. 215 



black. It certaiuly does not show so much white below and is more 

 8I)ottcd ; but the characters arc very slight ; the bars on the scapu- 

 lars are rather more sagittate. 

 Hub. Formosa. 



14. Glaucidium sylvaticum. 



Athene sylvatica, 5;j. Comp.Av. i. p. 40 (ex Midi MS. in Mus. Lund.); 

 Wall. Ibis, 1808, p. 23 ; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 40. 



Taenioptynx sylvatica, lip. Rev. et Hat/, de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 



Noctua sj'lvatica, Schl. Mus. I'.-B. Strioes, p. 30. 



Glaucidium sylvaticum, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 

 Adult {typo of species). Above deep rufous brown, crossed with 

 transverse bars of ochraceous buff, the scapulars with large wliite 

 spots on the outer web, forming a more or less tlistinct wing-bar ; 

 the wing-coverts coloured like the back, the fulvous cross bars a little 

 broader and more distinct ; quills and tail blackish brown, with 

 distinct bars of ochraceous buff or whitish, not strictly continuous 

 across the wing, the inner primaries and all the secondaries with 

 large white bars on the inner webs, the tail-feathers with whitish 

 bars on the inner web, more distinct below; head rather more 

 ashy brown than the back, spotted and barred with dull white; 

 the sides of the face like the head, but the lores and feathers behind 

 the eye white, the hinder neck encircled with a not very distinct 

 collar of ochraceous buff; throat and sides of neck pure white, as also 

 the chest and the entire centre of the body, the lower part of the 

 throat and sides of the breast rufous brown, the flank-feathers some- 

 what margined with white, producing a striped appearance ; under 

 wing-coverts white, with a bar of brown feathers across the middle. 

 Total length 0-5 inches, culmen about 0-05, wiug 3-8, taU 2-1, 

 tarsus 0-8, middle toe 0-7. (Mus. Lmjd.) 

 Hab. Sumatra. 



Obs. The note that I made at the time of examining the type 

 was that it was " closely allied to G. brodiei, but differing in its 

 rufous brown back, dusky sides of face, and especially in the uniform 

 chestnut sides of the body." 



' 15. Glaucidium castanonotum. 



Athene castanonota, L'li/th, Cat. li. Mus. A. S. B. p. 39 ; Kclaurt, 



Prodr. Faun. Zeijl. p. 27. 

 T;enioglaux castauonolus, Bp. Reo. at Mat/, de Zoul. 1854, p. 544. 

 Noctua castanonota, Sc/d. Miis. I'.-B. Striges, p. 34. 

 Athene castaneonota, Grtii/, Ilund-t. B. i. p. 39 (1869) ; Hume, 



Rov<ih Notes, ii. p. 412; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 418. 

 Glaucidium castanonotum, Sliarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adult. Upper surface deep rufous chestnut, with remains of black- 

 ish cross bars more or less visible on the back and greater wing- 

 coverts, some of the outer median coverts slightly notched with ful- 

 vous, all the rest unilbrm chestnut like tlie ba^-k ; primary-coverts 

 didl brown, with a few rufous bands cxtcrmdly ; j)rimaries dull brown, 

 barred with rufous brown on the inner web, the outer web having a 



