306 ASIONID^E. 



Hume a " chuckling vibrating call." The breeding-season is from 

 March to May ; the eggs, 4 in number, are deposited in a hollow 

 or hole in a tree without any nest, or with a few dead leaves or 

 touchwood as lining. The eggs are round, pure white and glossy, 

 .and measure about 1-41 by 1-19. 



1184. Glaucidium radiatum. The Jungle Owlet. 



Strix radiata, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii, p. 572 (1833). 



Athene erythropterus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 136. 



Athene radiata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 281 ; id. Cat. p. 39 ; Rortf. 

 $ M. Cat. i, p. 67 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 262 ; Jerdon, B. 1. i, 

 143; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 409 ; Butler, S. F. iii, p. 450; An- 

 derson. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 27; 1876, p. 781. 



Athene malabarica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 280; id. Cat. p. 39; 

 Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 144 ; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 413. 



Glaucidium radiatum, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 217 ; Ball. 8. F. vii, 

 p. 201 ; Hume, Cat. no. 77 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 152 ; Reid, 

 S. F. x, p. 17 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 292 ; Damson, ibid. p. 344 ; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 76 ; Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, 

 p. 196 ; Gates, in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 112. 



Glaucidium malabaricum, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 218 (suhsp.) ; 

 Legge, S. F. iv, p. 242 ; Hume 8f Bourd., ibid. p. 372 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 78 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 38 ; Hume, ibid. p. 39 ; Butler, ibid. 

 p. 377 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 76. 



Jangli Chogad, H. ; Kalakasut, Oude ; Chota kalpencha, Beng. ; Adam 

 paini gante, Tel. ; Nattah, Mai. 



Coloration. Lores whitish with black tips ; sides of head and 

 neck, crown, and whole upper surface dark olive-brown, more or 

 less tinged with rufous and narrowly barred with pale rufous or 

 white, the bars much closer than in G. cuculoides ; some white spots 

 on outer scapulars and on greater coverts ; wings blackish brown, 

 both webs indented with chestnut spots, becoming bars on the 

 secondaries ; inner webs and sometimes the outer also becoming 

 entirely rufous towards the base ; tail blackish, with narrow white 

 cross-bars, interrupted and often broken at the shafts ; chin and 

 a band on each side of the throat behind the ear-coverts, a large 

 patch on the upper breast, middle of breast, and abdomen white ; 

 rest of lower surface banded dark olive and white or pale rufous, 

 the dark bars becoming wider apart behind on flanks and disap- 

 pearing on the legs and lower tail-coverts. 



Bill greenish horny ; cere greenish ; irides yellow ; feet greenish 

 yellow to green. 



Length 8 ; tail 2'9 ; wing 5-1 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape '75. 



G. malabaricum is a rufous race, found, together with typical 

 G. radiatum and all intermediate varieties, on the Malabar coast. 



Distribution. Throughout the greater part of India in well- 

 wooded jungly tracts, from the lower Himalayas to the extreme 

 South, and also in Ceylon. This species is wanting in the Punjab, 

 Sind, Eajputana (except at Mount Abu), rare or wanting in the 



