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back to the nape are numerous concealed white spots. The feathers of 

 median part of crown and occiput are plain to the base or with extremely 

 fine concealed shaft-lines of white. There is a narrow nuchal collar of 

 feathers having concealed white spots with brown and blackish edgings. 

 Scapulars bistre-brown like the back but with a few small concealed 

 spots of dull cinnamon. Primary coverts sepia-brown with cinnamon 

 spots and edgings at tips. Quills dark clove-brown with a few marginal 

 spots of dull cinnamon and crossed by faint narrow bars of lighter end- 

 ing in subquadrate whitish spots on their inner webs. Tail uniform in 

 color with the wings and marked by a series of seven white spots along 

 each border of the middle tail feathers; all of these spots are shaded 

 about their border by a tinge of dull cinnamon. On the two or three 

 outer pairs of tail feathers these spots become very small, giving the 

 appearance of broken bands or bars across the tail. Upper tail coverts 

 like back with mottling of dull cinnamon. Feathers of lores white 

 at base but black on the hair-like distal two thirds. A very narrow 

 whitish border on eyelids. The feathers on sides of the face, including 

 ear-coverts are hair-brown below the eyes, and mottled with blackish- 

 brown, dull cinnamon and whitish over the ears. A very narrow series 

 of white feathers on the chin are continuous with the well marked white 

 malar stripe which reaches back on each side to beneath the ear. The 

 hair-brown color of the crown extends forward to the sides of the throat 

 below this white bar. On each side of the breast is an area of brown 

 slightly paler than the back and continuous with a narrow collar of the 

 same color which margins the brown area of the back in front. Across 

 the chin and back along sides of the throat there is a narrow line of 

 feathers hair-brown at base and pale cinnamon at tip forming a thin 

 band uniting the brown areas on the sides of the breast. Throat and 

 middle line of breast white. Rest of lower parts white heavily streaked 

 with brown ; these streaks being similar in shade to the back, along the 

 fore part of the flanks, but elsewhere, much darker sepia-brown. 

 Feathers on front of thighs are dull cinnamon; elsewhere on legs they 

 are white except for a fine mottling of dingy hair-brown on front of 

 tarsus. Under wing-coverts yellowish white. Border of shoulder on 

 under side pale cinnamon sparsely streaked with dark brown. Bill 

 greenish-yellow at tip, horn color at base. Claws black at tip, horn 

 color at base. 



General characters. — Size small; somewhat similar to Glaucidium 

 cobanense but differing from it in the bistre-brown instead of rufous 

 plumage; color of the head distinct from that of the back; forehead 

 marked with shaft-streaks of dull white extending back to nuchal collar as 

 concealed spots instead of the obscure bars of brighter rufous of G. 

 cobanense. The latter species is described as being almost uniform 

 rufous while in G. fisheri the back is bistre-brown tinged with vandyke in 

 marked contrast with the hair-brown of the top of the head. 



