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four to six cross bands. Tail rufous, with eight to ten black cross bands. Lower parts 

 white. Sides brownish, with white spots. Tarsi dirty white, cross-banded. 



Dimensions. — Wings 92-99, tail 63-70 mm. in length. 



Hab. Southern America ; Straits of Magellan ; Peru. 



The figure given in the ' Voy. au Pole Sud ' is too large. 



3. Glaucidium infuscatum, Kp. 



Sirix infuscata, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 97 (1820). 



passerinoides, Temm. Col. 344 (1824) ; Pr. Max. Beitr. iii. 239. 



Glaucidium gnoma, Wagl. 1832, mas juv. 

 Athene passerinoides et (/noma, G. R. Gray. 

 infuscata, Bp. 



Diagn. — Tail 61-66 mm. long, black, with five to six pairs of white spots not reaching 

 to the shafts. 



Descr. — Head-feathers rufous-brown, with white concealed shaft-spots enlarged in 

 the middle. Back unicolor, in young birds light-rufous spotted. Shoulder-coverts 

 rufous-brown, with white spots on the margin of the outer webs, and with rufous con- 

 cealed spots. Small feathers of the wings with pure white spots on the outer webs. 

 First wing-feather with five light-rufous spots, the second with three to five, third with 

 three light and four dark spots. Interior parts of the wings whitish, with dark ends, and 

 five irregular stripes. Tail dark brown. The lower parts white, with small, distinct, 

 light and dark brown shaft-spots. Sides of the breast when young with rufous-yellow 

 spots. Tarsi whitish. 



Dimens. — Wings 90-95, tail 61-66 mm. long. 



Hah. Brazil ; Mexico ; California'. 



An old female from Uruguay, which I have received by the kindness of Professor 

 Lichtenstein, under the name of Strix eluta {elata, Bp.), has smaller spots on the 

 head and tail, darker back, and more predominant dark brown on the white under- 

 parts. It is 6" long. Professor Lichtenstein gives as a synonymous species with Strix 

 eluta, Str. passerinoides, Temm. 



4. Glaucidium ferrugineum, Kp. 



Strix ferruginea, Pr. Max. Col. 199 (? juv.) ; Beitr. iii. 234. 



Athene ?, G. R. Gray. 



Noctua ?, Cuv. 



Diagn. — The largest and most rufous. 



Descr. — The head-feathers rufous, with rufous-yellow shafts ; in young birds with 

 rufous-yellow stripes along the shafts. Back unicolor-rufous. Shoulder-coverts rufous, 



' The CEilifornian species is different — Glaucidium californicum, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 4: see Casein's 

 'Birds of California,' p. 189 (P. L. S.). 



