21G BUBOSID^. 



corresijoudiiig spot of rufous, incliuiug to fulvous on the outeiiuost 

 primaries ; secondaries also dark brown, banded with rufoxis on the 

 outer and with fulvous on the inner web, these bands much less 

 distinct on the inner secondaries ; upper tail- coverts blackish bro%VTi, 

 narrowly banded with fulvous, exactly resembling the tail, which has 

 eight narrow fulvous bands including the terminal one ; entire head 

 and neck dark brown, everywhere narrowly banded with ochraceous, 

 the hind neck banded and spotted with white ; ear-coverts rather 

 darker than the head, but barred in exactly the same manner ; lores 

 brown, barred with ochraceous, the bases being white ; cheeks pure 

 white, forming a triangular patch ; chin whitish ; throat crossed 

 with a band of dark brown feathers, barred with ochraceous like the 

 sides of the neck, with which it is continuous ; sides of the breast 

 blackish brown, narrowly barred with ochraceous ; the rest of the 

 imder suiface of the body white, streaked down the centre with 

 brown, with which colour the flanks are also barred ; under tail- 

 coverts whitish ; leg-feathers fulvous, barred with brown ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish, with a few brown spots near the outer edge of 

 the wing, the greater series whitish at base, brown at tip ; inner 

 lining of the wing dull and slightly rufous brown, spotted on the 

 outer and barred on the inner web with pale rufous, inclining to ful- 

 vous on the latter ; bill yellow ; feet greenish brown. Total length 

 8-7 inches, wing 5-5, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-9. 



Obs. The sj)ocimen presented to the Museum by Mr. Gould is not 

 in very good order, but shows that the amount of cross barring on 

 the back varies ; for whereas in the subject of our description the 

 back is nearly uniform, in the other bird the blackish cross bars can 

 be traced very plainly all over the upper surface. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



a. Ad. st. Ceylon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [CI. 



b. Ad. sk. Ceylon. J. Goidd, Esq. [P.]. 



16. Glaucidium castanopterum. 



Strix spadicea, Seinw. MS. 



Stiix castanoptera, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 140 ; Temm. PI. Col. 



i. pi. 98. 

 Noctua castanoptera, Steph. Gm. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 69 : Less. Traite, 



p. 105 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Striges, p. 34. 

 Athene castanoptera, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. 



p. 280 ; Cass. Cat. Strtt/ida Philad. Mm. p. 14 ; B21. Crnisp. i. p. 44 ; 



Horsf. 4- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. L Co. 1. p. 67 ; Strickl. Orn. 8yn. 



p. 168 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 39 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 413. 

 Tsenioglaux castanoptera, Kauj), Cwitr. Orn. 1852, p. 106 ; id. Tr. 



Z. S. iv. p. 211 ; Bp. Eev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Glaucidium ca.stauopterum, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adult. Above uniform rufous chestnut, the outer web of the sca- 

 pulars white, forming a broafl longitudinal band; wing-coverts 

 chestnut like the back, only the outer greater wing-coverts exter- 

 nally white ; primary-coverts brown, externally washed with rufous ; 

 quills brown, barred on the inner web with ochraceous, the outer 



