218 IttTBONIDJ!. 



rufous buff, those on the hiud neck broader and lighter-coloured, and 

 inclining to white on the scapulars, the outer web of which is almost 

 entirely white with a few dusky brown spots or bars ; Aviug-coverts 

 dark brown, the cross bars more rufous and broader than on the 

 back, those on the greater series more broadly barred with white, the 

 greater series externally marked with large white spots, the edge of 

 the wing also white; primary-coverts dark brown, barred with rufous ; 

 quills dark brown, broadlj' banded with rufous, inclining to fulvous 

 on the outer web and causing a slightly spotted appearance ; the 

 bands on the secondaries much narrower, especially on the inner- 

 most, where they resemble those of the scapulars ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, narrowly tipped with whitish and crossed with eight 

 other narrow bauds of white, these bars not being continuous ; ear- 

 coverts dusky brown, minutely spotted with fulvous ; chin and cheeks 

 ■white, as also the fore neck, separated from the two latter by a band 

 of dusky blackish feathers, narrowly banded with rufous ; rest of 

 under sirrface white in the centre of the body, 1lie flanks broadly 

 barred with white and brown ; sides of upper breast thickly barred 

 with dusky brown and fulvous : under tail-coverts white, spotted 

 ■with brown ; leg-feathers fulvous, with a few small spots of brown ; 

 under wing-coverts white, washed with rufous, with a few smaU spots 

 of brown, the lower series rufous white, tipped with brown ; inner 

 lining of (juills deep brown, barred with dull rufous on the inner 

 web, much brighter near the base of the latter, the bars gradually 

 broken up ; bill greenish horn-colour ; feet greenish horn-colour ; 

 claws dusky ; iris golden yellow. Total length 8 inches, wing 4*95, 

 tail 2-85, tarsus 3-9. 



Huh. India, from the Himalayas southwards through the penin- 

 sula, but not extending far below the Neilgherries. 



a. Ad. sk. India. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. st. Himalaj'a Mts. Major-Gen. llardwicke [P.]. 



c. Ad. St. Himalaya Mts. Hon. East-India Co. [P.J. 



d. Ad. St. Nepal. ' B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk, Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 y. Ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Purchased. 



Subsp. u. Glaucidium malabaricum. 



Noctua cuculoides, Jerd. Madr. Joiirn. x. p. !)1. 



Noctua spadicea, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiv. p. 120. 



Athene castanoptera, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 184. 



Athene malabarica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 280, et xix. p. 500 ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 39 ; Strickl. Om. Si/n. p. 1C8 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 144 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 40 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. 



p. 413. 

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



Adult. Head, neck, and interscapulary region tawny rufous, nar- 

 rowly barred across with black, the scapulars and hinder jjortion of 

 the back and rump fulvous or greyish bntf, w ith much broader black 

 bars, the outer scapulars more or less uniformly white externally. 



