222 BTBONID.'E. 



ashy brown below, barred across with yellowish, inclining to pale 

 rufous towards the tips of the feathers. Total length l(t-5 inches, 

 wing 5-8, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-1. 



19. Glaucidium whitelyi. 



Athene cuciiloides, Siriiih. Ibis, 18G1, pp. 2o, 265 ; id. P. Z. S. 180.3, 



p. 202 ; id. Ibis. 18(57, p. 406. 

 Athene whitelyi, Bli/th, Ibis, 1867, p. 313 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 40 ; 



Hume, Roiu'ih Notes, ii. p. 415 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 349; Sivinh. P. 



Z. S. 1871, 'p. 343. 

 Glaucidium whitelii, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 25i). 



Adult male. Above brown, everywhere broadly barred across with 

 ochraceous, the bars broader and a little more rufescent on the sca- 

 pulars, the bars on the hind neck rather whiter, especial]}- towards 

 the base of the feathers ; wing-coverts brown, the bars deeper ochra- 

 ceous and T\-ider apart than on the back ; the outer scapulars with 

 large white spots externally, forming a distinct shonlder-patch, the 

 outer and median wing-coverts also with very large wMte terminal 

 spots, forming a longitudinal band down the wing ; primary-coverts 

 dark brown, slightly tipped with whitish, and crossed with a few 

 nearly obsolete bars of lighter brown ; quills dark brown, tipped 

 with 'white and crossed with bars of lighter brown, these bars repre- 

 sented on the outer web by fulvous or fulvous brown notches, these 

 notches widening into bars on the secondaries, extending right across 

 the innermost of them ; tail blackish, broadly tipped with white, 

 and crossed, moreover, with five other bands of white ; lores and a 

 tolerably distinct eyebrow white, the former obscured by central 

 shaft-streaks of black ; ear-coverts barred with ochraceous and black ; 

 cheeks white, extending backwards and forming a triangular white 

 patch behind the ear-coverts ; throat pure white, as also the fore 

 neck, these being separated from each other by a baud of ochraceous 

 feathers baiTed with brown, extended on both sides and joining the 

 sides of the neck, which are similarly barred ; sides of breast broadly 

 barred with ochraceous and dark brown ; rest of under surface white, 

 the abdomen broadly streaked with rather pale brown, the flanks 

 thickly mottled with brown bars ; thighs for the most part white, 

 washed with fulvous on the upper part, and barred externally with 

 brown ; under tail- coverts white, with a few narrow brown shaft- 

 streaks near the tips of the feathers ; under ^ving-coverts and edge 

 of wing white, the inner ones washed with yellowish, the lower 

 series yellowish at base, ashy brown at tip, thus resembling the 

 iuner lining of the quills, which are ashy brown below, broadly 

 barred with yellowish on the inner web, much more distinctly on the 

 secondaries. Total length 11-5 inches, wing G-4, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-2.5. 



Adult female. Eather browner than the male, and not so closely 

 mottled -with ochraceous bars ; bands on tail six, not including the 

 terminal one. Total length 12 inches, wing 6-3, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-3. 



Obs. Both the Fokien birds in the collection have five bars on the 

 tail besides the terminal one ; they are, however, much more rufous 

 than the specimens described, all the cross bars of the upper surface 



