HETEROGLAUX. JQ5 



Carine glaux occurs in Kandahar, and probably in Beloochistan, but there 

 is no information as to its occurrence anywhere in India. At*-- c / ST* 7 f^^/l 



100. Carine pulchra, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 469 ; id. op. at. iii. p . 39 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Striges, p. 140; Subsp.a. id. Ibis. 1875, p. 258; Hume, Sir. F. 

 Birds of Pegu, iii. pp. 14, 39; iv., p. 47. THE LESSER SPOTTED OWLET. 



Mr. A. O. Hume characterizes this species as closely allied to Carine 

 brama, but much smaller, the color of the upper surface usually a darker and 

 purer brown, and the white markings smaller. Sharpe, however, gives a detail- 

 ed description of an adult male from Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection, 

 which I transcribe. 



Adult Male. General color above slaty brown with more or less concealed 

 spots of white, very small on the head, where they are plainly defined ; 

 hind neck barred with white, forming an indistinct kind of collar ; scapu- 

 lars barred across with white, broader on the outer web ; wing coverts dark 

 slaty color, externally notched with white, the median and greater series with 

 large rounded spots of white on the outer web ; the primary coverts and quills 

 dark slate color, notched on the outer web and barred on the inner ones with 

 white ; tail slaty brown crossed with 6 narrow bars of white, rather broader 

 on the outer feather ; forehead and eyebrow white ; the lores developing into 

 hair-like bristles ; fore part of cheeks whitish ; ear coverts dark slaty, barred 

 across with white ; entire throat white, extending backwards in a triangular 

 patch below the ear coverts; a black mark running down the sides of the neck, 

 rest of under surface white, barred with ashy brown, the bars fainter on the 

 lower flanks ; leg feathers and under tail coverts pure white, also the under 

 wing coverts, the lower series of the latter ashy brown at tip ; inner lining of 

 quills ashy brown below and barred with white ; bill brownish ; the tip and 

 cu linen greenish yellow. 



Length. 7 to 8 inches ; wing 5-4 to 5-5 ; tail 3* i to 3*5 ; tarsus ro5 to ri. 



Hab. Burmah and Pegu ; very common at Thyetmyo and Prome, and Dr. 

 Anderson obtained specimens of it in independent Burmah. 



Mr. Gates in S. F. iii., p. 39, (Hume) remarks that this is possibly the 

 noisiest of all the small screech owls. They are continually quarrelling with 

 each other at night, and even in the day time, a pair will commonly come out 

 ui >ome hole in a tree and screech away for a quarter of an hour. 



Gen. Heteroglaux. Hume. 



Si/e medium ; head small ; disc imperfect ; nostrils situated in the centre of 

 the cere. Ear orifice smaller than the eye, circular, without operculum, wings 

 short: first four primaries conspicuously notched on the inner webs ; 4th 

 primary longest ; tarsi short, stout, densely covered with feathers ; upper 

 surface of toes thickly covered with stiff bristly shafted feathers. 



101. Heteroglaux Blewitti, Hume, Sir. F. i., 467; Ball op. dt. 



1 1, p. 382 ;. Sharpe, Cat. Striges, B. M. p. 141. BLEWITT'S HETEROGLAUX. 



