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than the wings, exceeding them by more than 2:1, (Hnglish,) and 
the tarsi and toes are feathered. The length is 11°7, (Zuglish). 
“The whole of the upper parts are rufous brown, the feathers 
of the head being dotted with very small white spots, and those 
of the coverts and the secondaries (?) with large, round, ones. 
The primaries and tail feathers are unbarred and unspotted, 
unicolorous with the back; the orbital region, face and throat, 
are rufous white, the lower parts are pure white, intersected by 
transverse, widely separated, brown bars; feathers of the tarsi 
and toes, rufous; claws and bill yellow.” 
According to the plate, the secondaries and the primaries 
above the emarginations are paler, a white spot is shown on 
the outer web of the second primary just above the emargina- 
tion. 
No. 80. Glaucidium Brodiei.* Burton. 
THe Pigmy CoLuaARED OWLET. 
This species lays in May and June, in hollows of trees. It 
makes little or no nest, though a hole that I examined in 
* G. BRopriet. 
(I have unfortunately mislaid my paper of the measurements of this 
species.) 
Description. Lores, (the elongated bristle-like shafts of the feathers 
brownish black towards the tips,) a supercilium continued backwards over 
the ear coverts, (obscure in skins but well marked in the live bird,) a band 
under the eye, the chin, and a broad stripe running thence, and from the 
base of the lower mandible below the ear coverts, and round the lower half of 
the posterior margin of the aural orifice, (where in dry skins it is more or 
less hidden by the ear coverts,) the lower part of the throat, and a broad 
band at the base of the neck in front, a broad streak running down the 
centre of the breast and abdomen, and the lower tail coverts, (the latter with 
a subterminal brown band,) pure white. The ear coverts, top of the head, 
nape, sides of the neck and a broad band across the throat, in some greyish, in 
some rufous, brown, thickly spotted, or im some irregularly banded with tiny 
imperfect bars, of greyish, rufous, or fulvous white. A broad, rufous buff, 
half collar at the base of the neck behind, including in it two large black or 
blackish brown blotches. The back, scapulars, wing coverts, rump and upper 
tail coverts, a somewhat clearer brown, of the same shade as the head, regu- 
larly barred at intervals, at distances of about 0-2 with very narrow bays, 
nearly unicolorous with the spots on the head. The tail, darker brown, with 
about seven, narrow, transverse bars, of the same colour as those on the back, 
and the feathers narrowly tipped with the same. In some specimens, a few of 
the coverts and of the exterior scapulars, have large, white, or fulvous blotches 
on the outer webs, but I have others which do not exhibit a trace of these. 
