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with large rufous-yellow or rufous-whitish spots on the outer webs. The smaller 

 feathers on the wings rufous, with very few rufous-yellow, in the middle white, dark- 

 margined spots. Exterior web of the first wing-feather unicolor, in young birds spotted ; 

 third wing-feather with traces of five rufous spots. Interior of wing rufous, with six to 

 nine cross bands, in youth with five to seven. Tail unicolor-rufous, in young birds 

 with eight blackish bands. The lower parts rufous-yellow, with large rufous spots, in 

 young birds with long shaft-spots. 



Dimens. — Wings 105-111, tail 76 mm. long. 



Prince Maximilian of Neuwied states that this very handsome Owl is to be found 

 in nearly all the forests of Brazil, where it is called Caboure. In his travels he very 

 often heard its voice, which has a great similarity to that of Falco subhuteo, and 

 sounds nearly like Keek-Keck, quickly uttered and often repeated. On cautiously 

 approaching, he invariably found a pair of these Owls sitting close together, having 

 certainly their nest in the neighbourhood. They were quite active in motion, very 

 tame, and less oppressed by daylight than other owls. Very often, when in bivouac 

 round the fire in the melancholy forest, he heard these little Owls overhead on a tree. 

 In their stomach he usually found remains of insects. 



Subgenus c. Microglaux. 

 These have all the characters of the former ; but the nostrils are placed on the mar- 

 gin, and not in the middle, of the pea-shaped cera. 



5. Glaucidium havanense, Kp.' 



Strix havanensis, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Diagn. — Size of Gl. infuscatum. Wing 98-99, tail 65 mm. long, with six narrow 

 bars of rusty-yellow colour. 



Descr. — Lorum, face, a stripe over the eye, and stripe under the ear-coverts white. 

 Ends of the long lorum-bristles black. Ear-coverts light rusty-yellow, with blackish 

 spots. Head and neck brownish, with rusty-yellow shaft-spots. Back and shoulder- 

 coverts with more concealed rusty-yellow band and spots. On the margin of the 

 shoulder-coverts no white spots, only broad rusty-yellow bands on the outer webs. The 

 feather of the thumb on the outer web with four rusty-yellow-whitish spots. Alongside 

 this feather a series of coverts with rusty-yellow bands, which are on the outer web 

 white-spotted. The wings with six to seven rusty-red bands, which are on the outer 

 web whitish-spotted. The lower parts white, round the chin rusty-red. The throat 

 white ; breast, sides, and belly with irregular rusty-red and black shaft-spots. Tibiae 

 and the upper part of the whitish, black-spotted tarsi rusty-yellow. 



Sab. Cuba. (Mus. Berol.) 



' This species should stand as Glaucidium sigu, Cab. Journ.f. Cm. 1855, p. 4t>5. Noctua sign, D'Orb. (P. L. S.) 



