13. GLATTCIDiril. 223 



being rufous, aud in general appearance they look much more like 

 Indian spccimeuH of G. cnculo'ule^. G. whitelii, however, is always 

 larger than the latter, and never has more than six bars on the tail, 

 instead of seven as in the Himalayan species. 

 Hab. China. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Folden, China. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



r. $ ad. sk. Ning^io, Dec. 24, 1871. II. Swinboe, ]v«q. I C.l. 



d. S ad. sk. Ningpo, Dec. 31, 1871. R. Swinboe, Esq. [C.J. 



20. Glaucidium capense. 



Athene capensis, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Jonrn. sev. 2, no. 4, pt. 1, p. 313 ; 



id. III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 33 ; Grit!/, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Bp. Cmsp. 



I p. 37 ; Sfrickl. Orn. St/n. p. 1G9 ; Lm/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 37 ; Grin/, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 40 ; Finsch Sf Hnrtl. Vn;/. Ostafr. p. 98. 

 Tffiniofrlaux capensis, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 7U1) ; id.Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 212 ; 



Gnrmij, Ihix, 1868, p. 147; id. in Aiiderss. B. Dam. L. p. 38. 

 Smitbiglaux capensis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. dc Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Noctua capensis, Sckl. Revue Accijntr.' Mus. P.-B. p. 28. 

 Carine capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 77, pi. 3. 

 Glaucidium capense, Sliarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adult. General colour above deep brown, narrowly barred with 

 rufous ochre ; the head lighter brown, minutely dotted with whitish, 

 rather inclining to small bars on the hind neck ; scapulars white, 

 tipped with brown, forming a very distinct longitudinal baud down 

 the body ; wing-coverts brown, narrowly barred with rufous ochre 

 like the back, the outer median and greater coverts with a large 

 spot of pure white on the outer web ; primary-coverts uniform sepia- 

 brown ; (juills dark brown, narrowly banded with rufous ockre, 

 the primaries distinctly spotted with white on the outer web, all 

 the (quills more broadly barred with white on the inner web, plainer 

 on the secondaries, especially the innermost ; tail brown, crossed 

 with fourteen narrow bars of rufous ochre, including the terminal 

 one ; loral plumes whitish, with brown shafts ; ear-coverts brown, 

 streaked "with huffy white; checks white, forming a triangular patch ; 

 sides of neck brown, spotted with minute whitish bars like the hind 

 neck ; chin dusky white ; throat brownish ; fore neck white, the 

 feathers tipped with pale brown ; chest white in the centre, barred 

 with brown, the sides of the breast barred with fulvous and brown ; 

 rest of under surface pure white, with distinct terminal spots and 

 bars of brown ; under tail-coverts whitish ; leg-feathers yellowish 

 buff, with a few brown bars ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, 

 the edge of the wing pure white, the adjoining feathers brown, form- 

 ing an irregular longitudinal band just inside the wing, the lower 

 series brown, j'ellowish at base ; inner lining of wing brown, the 

 primaries barred on the inner web with ochraceous, the secondaries 

 yellowish at base of inner web, barred with the same colour for the 

 greater part of this web. Total length 11 inches, wing 5-9, tail 4, 

 tarsus 1. 



Hab. South Africa, 

 a. Ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. Type of species. 



