220 BCBONID^. 



Ttenioo'laiix cuculoides, ^a(«p, Isis, 1848, p. 769; id. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 106; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 212. 

 Glaucidiiim cuculoides, Sharpe, Ihis, 1875, p. 250. 



Adult. Above browu, the feathers all slightly tipped and distinctly 

 barred across with ochraceous, the bars on the hind neck wider and 

 here and there inclining to white spots, forming an indistinct kind 

 of collar ; scapulars externally white, showing a broad longitudinal 

 shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts marked exactly like the back, but 

 the bars rather more rufous ochre, the outer median and greater 

 coverts with large and distinct spots of white ; primarj'-coverts dark 

 brown ; quills dark brown, tipped with whitish, the primaries obso- 

 letely barred on the inner web with lighter brown, and notched on 

 the outer one Avith fulvous, more or less inclining to rufous ; the 

 secoudaries barred ^vith fulvous on the inner web, the bars nearly 

 traversing the innermost secondaries ; upper tail- coverts darker 

 brown than the back, barred with ochraceous, the lower ones with 

 white ; tail-feathers blackish brown, narrowly tipped with whitish 

 and crossed with six other bands of white ; lores and an indistinct 

 eyebrow diiU white, the former obscured with blackish shaft-lines ; 

 ear- coverts fulvous, barred with blackish ; cheeks white, forming a 

 triano-ular patch on the sides of the neck ; chin and fore neck 

 whitish, separated from each other by a tolerably broad band of 

 dark brown feathers, somewhat mottled with ochraceous bars ; the 

 sides of the upper part of the breast brown, distinctly barred across 

 with ochraceous, these bars dissolving into lateral spots on the lower 

 sides of breast ; rest of under surface of body white, veiy broadly 

 streaked with brown, the flanks barred with ochraceous bufP, but 

 less distinctly than the breast; under tail-coverts white; leg-feathers 

 fulvous, with dusky brown cross bars ; under wing-coverts yellowish, 

 inclining to white near the edge of the wing, the greater series yel- 

 lowish at base, brown at tip, the wing-lining being dark brown, 

 barred with yellowish near the base of the inner web and inclining 

 more to rufous. Total length 11 inches, wing 6-2, tail 3-8, tarsus 1. 



Obs. None of the Museum specimens are sexed, and 1 therefore 

 cannot define the relative size of the sexes. Specimens vary much 

 in colouring, some being very much darker than others. 



Young. In general similar to the adults, but having the upper 

 surface much more spotted, none of the bars being so distinct, and 

 the whole appearance of the upper surface more rufous ; on the hind 

 neck a few whitish triangular spots ; patch of white on scapulars 

 absent ; wing-coverts with distinct whitish external marks, but these 

 somewhat washed 'with ochraceous ; underneath more dingy and ob- 

 scured than the adult, the bars on the sides of the breast very faintly 

 indicated. 



Hab. Himalaya Mountains, extending eastwards to Burmah and 



Siam. 



a. Juv. St. India. II. Drummond, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Juv. sk. India. Purchased. 



c Ad. St. Himalaya Mountains. Major-Gen. Ilardwicke [P.]. 



d Juv. sii. Darjiling. J. Ciould, Esq. [P.]. 



