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with Pennatus, proposed (in Epist.) to separate it under a new 
genus as Athenoptera, and should such separation be deemed 
expedient, the name is an appropriate one. The plumage, ear 
tufts and bare bristle-less feet, are, however, those of Ephialtes, 
while as far as my experience goes in Lettia, Plumipes, and 
Griseus, the fourth and fifth primaries are most commonly 
longest, and no? the third and fourth. For the present, I prefer 
to retain it under Hphialtes. 
Capt. Hutton remarks of this species :— 
“This bird, if it be truly Hphialtes Spilocephalus of Blyth, 
and he wrote that name on the paper wrapper with his own 
hand, cannot stand under that genus if Jerdon’s generic charac- 
ters are correct, for while he gives third and fourth quills long- 
est, this Mussooree bird has the fourth and fifth longest, as im 
Athene. I have lately examined six good specimens, and this 
character is apparent in all. It is a curious fact, moreover, that 
Ihave fully ascertained the double whistle so often heard in the 
hills, to belong, not to Glaucidium Brodici, as has always been sup- 
posed, but to the present species ; four have been shot while ut- 
tering the whistle ‘‘ who-who”’ close to my house in fine moonlight 
nights, and three or four specimens of G. Brodie/, uttering a 
somewhat similar note of four syllables, have also been shot 
while uttering it; there is in fact no shadow of a mistake about 
it, and yet I, for one, have for many years attributed both notes 
to G. Brodiet, and could have sworn that the latter bird uttered 
the double note of ‘“ who-who,”’ and that I had shot it while 
doing so. The fact is, however, that the two species being 
common, are often either found in the same tree or very near 
each other, and the collector following the sound, shoots which- 
ever bird he sees first, and so confounds the notes. 
“IT do not believe in any red phase of plumage in this 
species, as we have taken the young from the nest, and found 
them and the parents alike,—while as regards Ephialtes 
Lempiji” (this is really #. Pennatus) “or what I take to be 
such from Jerdon’s description, with which it agrees toler- 
ably well, the nestling is red like the parent. The wing of 
E. Lempiji” (should be E. Pennatus) “however differs toto 
celo from that of the present species,” (viz., H. Gymnopodus). 
“Tn the former bird, the third and fourth quills are longest, and 
the wing reaches to the end of the tail, if not beyond it, 
whereas in the present species, the fourth and fifth quills are 
longest, and the wing is short, not far over-reaching two-thirds 
of the tail; in the former, the quills are pointed, in the latter, 
broad and obtusely rounded. At all events, whatever the true 
specific names, and I am by no means certain of these, they 
