212 DR. J. J. KAUP'S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGID^E. 



broad, black bands. Breast black, with small rufous bands. Lower parts white, with 

 dark shaft-spots. Tail dark brown at the base, rufous-yellowish, with six bands and 

 the extremity yellowish. 



Dimens. — Wing 147, tail 79 mm. long. 



7. Athene erythroptera, Blyth. 



Strix erythroptera, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 136. 

 Noctua pei-lineata, Hodgs. Journ. A. S. B. 1837, p. 369. 

 Strix radiata, Tick. 



cuculoides, Jerd. 



Athene undulata, Blyth. 



Diagn. — The head blackish, with rufous-yellow or whitish bands. Shoulder- coverts 

 with very small bands, with larger white spots on the margins of the wings. Tail 

 black, with nine to ten irregular small bands. 



Descr. — The head with two rufous-yellow or whitish bands on each feather. Back 

 to the tail-coverts with three to four cross bands and margins on each feather, which 

 are on the back rufous-yellow, and on the tail-coverts whitish. Shoulder-coverts 

 similarly banded, five to six bands on each feather. The small feathers of the wings 

 dark brown, rufous-spotted, with some large white spots on portions of the exterior 

 webs. Arm and hand wing-feathers black, banded with rufous. The inner wing light 

 reddish along the shafts, spotted and banded with blackish; on the coverts white and 

 rufous, with dark spots. Sides of the breast rufous-yellowish. Belly and its sides 

 with blackish bands. Tail-bands in a crooked direction irregularly connected with the 

 shaft. Tarsus white, with irregular dark spots. 



Dimens. — Wing 130, tail 76 mm. long. 



Hnb. Northern Hindostan. 



8. Athene cuculoides, Blyth. 



Noctua cuculoides, Vig. 



auribarbis, Hodgs. ; Gould, Cent. Him. Birds, t. 4. 



Diagn. — Total colour of the wing brownish. Tail with seven cross bands. 

 Descr. — Very much like J. erythroptera, but larger, and in the drawing of the feathers 

 broader. The young bird is more spotted than banded on the upper parts. 

 Dimens. — "Wing 140-149, tail 83-85 mm. long. 

 Hah. Northern Hindostan. 



9. Athene capensis, A. Smith. 



III. S. Afr. Zool. t. 33. 

 Diagn. — Tail with fourteen small rufous bands. 



Descr. — Head brownish-grey, spotted with white, two spots on each feather. Back 

 dark brown, each feather with two small, rufous, arrow-like bands. Shoulder-coverts 



