to ' The Birds of India.' 349 



73. Athene cuculoides. 



A Japanese and Chinese race has been noted by Blyth to 

 differ chiefly in the bars on the tail being fewer, as well as the 

 markings on the quills. He calls it A. whiteleyi ; and as in 

 Burniah Athene cuculoides is recorded as being found at the 

 level of the sea, true A. cuculoides being exclusively a moun- 

 tain bird, he suggests that the Burmese race may be the same 

 as the Japanese bird. 



76. Athene brama. 



It is most probable that the bird stated in ' The Birds of 

 India ' to have come from Western Asia was not A. brama, 

 but A. persica, Vieillot {bactriana, Blyth, gymnopus, Hodgson) , 

 also occurring in Tibet and Afghanistan, &c. 



I may, however, state that the bird referred to in Gray's 

 Catalogue of Hodgson's collections as nudipes, Gray, gymnopus, 

 Hodgson, and with a reference to the drawing, pi. 80 of Hodg- 

 son's drawings, is in reality marked on the drawing in Hodg- 

 son's handwriting " lagnpus,'' and most unmistakably represents 

 Nye tale tengmalmi. 



This latter bird is stated to have been found in the Cachar of 

 Nepal, i. e. the inner Himalayas, and will thus require to be 

 added to our Avifauna as 



8i bis. Nyctale tengmalmi. 



Mr. Gurney informs me that there is a specimen of Athene 

 noctua {passerina, auct.) in the Norwich Museum labelled from 

 Poona. I think that the history of this specimen ought to be 

 more fully investigated before it is admitted into our Avi- 

 fauna. 



80. Glaucidium brodi^i. 



This species extends through the Khasia hills and Burmah to 

 Tenasserim. Stoliczka has found its food to consist of lizards and 

 frogs, as well as insects; and Mr. Thompson, quoted by Hume, 

 gives its food as birds, mice, and Cicada. Now this bird may 

 not live chiefly on insects as I state, which statement Mr. Hume 

 objects to ; but as both the observers quoted above give insects, 

 I think we may conclude, at all events, that they generally form 



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