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*-,/. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. ,. 



g. Juv. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 1. 



//, t,k, I. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.I. 



w. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. h'. Hodgson' Esq', rp".]. 



«. Ad. St. Moalmaza. 



o. Ad. sk. Tonglioo, Biirmali. Purchased. 



p. Ad. sk. Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



06s. The specimen from " Moalmaza " is thus marked by Mr. 

 G. R. Gray ; at present I have not found this name in an atlas. 

 He calls it "Athene cucuhides, var. ;" but I cannot see that it 

 is different from the ordinary species. It is more rufous under- 

 neath, and has the stripes on the abdomen broken up into bars; 

 but I iind this appearance on some of the Nepal examples, though 

 scarcely to the same extent. The head is uniformly coloured wi'th 

 the back. I was at one time inclined to separate the Siamese bird 

 as distinct on account of its grey head and orange-striped under 

 surface. The Museum contains a specimen collected by the late 

 M. Mouhot in Siam, of which I append an exact description ; but 1 

 can scarcely believe it to be a species, as I saw specimens in the 

 Paris Museum, obtained by M. Bocourt in Siam, which seemed to 

 me inseparable from Himalayan examples. 



Adult. Upper surface brown, everywhere crossed with narrow 

 ochraceous bars, inclining to whitish on the hind neck, scapulars, 

 and upper tail-coverts, the bars on the latter rather broader ; outer 

 web of scapulars pure white, forming a narrow longitudinal shoulder- 

 patch ; wing-coverts more rufous brown than the back, barred across 

 with rufous ochre, the median series externally white, forming a 

 broad but imperfect wing-bar ; primary-coverts brown, with ob'so- 

 lete rufous cross bars ; quills dark brown, barred with rufous on the 

 inner web, these bars being represented on the outer web by a 

 large fulvescent notch ; the secondaries completely barred across with 

 rufous, inclining to fulvous on the outer web, the bars on the inner- 

 most secondaries rather narrower ; tail brown, slightly washed with 

 rufous, and crossed with seven bands of white, nowhere very broad 

 and tinged with fulvous near the base ; head and neck much greyer 

 than the rest of the back, everywhere barred across with ^vhitish, 

 more broadly just behind the ear and on the sides of the neck '; 

 lores dusky, the shafts white near the base ; ear-coverts duU brown^ 

 barred across with huffy white ; cheeks white, forming a triangular 

 patch; chin whitish, separated from the fore neck, which is" also 

 white, by a band across the throat, consisting of brown feathers 

 barred with fulvous like the adjoining sides of the neck ; the sides 

 of the upper breast dark brown, barred with bufty M'hite.the brown 

 bars gradually becoming light nifous towards the lower breast ; rest 

 of under surface white, broadly streaked with pale rufous, the flanks 

 barred with dusky brown and pale rufous ; under tail-coverts white : 

 leg-feathers fulvous white, slightly spotted M'ith brown, the plumes 

 at the bend of the tarsus light rufous, slightly marked with brown 

 spots ; under wing-coverts white, the innermost and the axillaries 

 yellowish, the greater ones washed with rufous and tipped with ashy 

 brown, api)earing as if part of the lining of the quills, which are 



