110 BUBONID^E. 



tinguishable by its larger size and darker abdomen, as well as by the tail having 

 4 5 dark (3 4 yellowish white) bars and also bearing a white tip, 



Lord Walden in the Ibis for 1874, p. 129, notes, that the fourth primary of a 

 <$from South Andamans, slightly exceeds the 3rd and is the longest ; the third 

 exceeds the 5th ; and Mr. Gurney, from examination of three specimens (i $ 

 and 2 ? 9 ) also from the same locality, remarks that the male bird exhibits 

 the curious peculiarity of being longer in the wing than the two females 

 (8*80 inches against 8-20 and 8*40 inches of the two females). 



Mr. Davison, the Curator of Mr. Hume's Museum, and one of the most 

 energetic and experienced collectors in India, secured two specimens of this 

 bird at Port Monat, S. Andamans. He says, he knows next to nothing 

 about the habits of the species, and adds that the first specimen he saw flitted 

 by him and settled on a small tree close to the water's edge. On the following 

 evening (iSth April), he secured a second specimen which was seated on 

 the stump of a tree. It rose as he approached, took a long sailing circular 

 flight and returned to its perch. The hoot, he says, is a peculiar one, quite 

 unlike that attributed to the Common Hawk -Owl. It is a low, subdued, but 

 clear double note. 



Gen. Glaucidium. Boie. 



Nostrils tubular in the middle of a swollen cere ; wing short and rounded, 

 the distance between it and the tip of tail much greater than the length of the 

 tarsus, which is feathered and is as long as the mid toe; ist quill shorter than 

 the next four, emarginate ; 4th and 5th about equal. Tail rounded. 



106. Glaucidium brodiei, Burton, P. z. S., 1835, p. 152 ; Sckl. 



Mus. P. B. Striges, p. 38 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 146, No. 80 ; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, ii. p. 417; Sharpe,Ibis, 1875, p. 259; Sir. F.vi. 39; ix 148. Athene 

 brodiei, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 163; Gould, B. Asia pi. xxii ; Oates* B 

 'British Burmah, ii. p. 159. The COLLARED PIGMY OWLET. 



Head, back, wings and tail dusky brown, banded rather broadly on the 

 head and narrowly on the back with white or fulvous white ; forehead with 

 small spots of the same. Hind neck with a fulvous collar and a patch of 

 black on each side. A white shoulder patch formed by the white markings on 

 the outer web of the scapulars. Primaries dark brown with notches of white 

 on the outer web ; secondaries the same, the bars on the inner ones larger. 

 Upper-tail coverts dark brown, barred and spotted with white or fulvous white. 

 Tail tipped with whitish and with 7 8 bars across. Lores and supercilium white, 

 the lores intermixed with black bristly feathers. Chin and fore neck white, 

 separated by a dark band ; rest of under surface brown with pale fulvous or 

 white bars ; under- wing coverts white, in some tinged yellowish with some few 

 brown markings near the edge of the wing. Bill pale greenish yellow ; toes a 

 deeper yellow ; irides bright pale yellow. 



Length, 6*5 to 7 inches; wing 3*45 to 375 ; tail 275 to 2'8 ; tarsus O'8. 



