362 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



buffy fawn. Altogether the bird is a good deal smaller, and 

 the lower parts conspicuously more buffy than in any specimen 

 of S. indicus. — Hume, " Hough Notes" 



76 bis. — Carine glaux, Savign. 



Adult Female. — General colour pale fawn-brown, mottled all 

 over with white spots, more or less concealed on the back, and 

 plainer on the scapulars and greater wing-coverts, the latter 

 being rather darker brown on their inner webs ; primary 

 coverts and quills dark brown, tipped with white and broadly 

 barred on the inner web with white — this bar not extending 

 across the feathers, but represented on the outer web with a 

 white notch, producing a chequered appearance ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale fawn brown, rather more rufous than the back, 

 largely spotted with white, which occupies the basal half of the 

 feather ; tail pale fawn-colour, tipped with whitish and crossed 

 with four bands of buffy white, continuous near the base, the 

 apical bands however not completely traversing the feather; 

 head rather darker fawn-brown than the back, streaked with 

 white down the centre of the feathers, dilating towards the tip 

 into a distinct white spot ; hind neck white, the feathers being 

 mottled with brown, most of the feathers edged and tipped with 

 the latter colour ; facial aspect white ; the lores with dark brown 

 shaft stripes ; the ear-coverts also broadly streaked with brown ; 

 cheeks white, continued in a triangular patch to behind the 

 ear-coverts ; chin and foreneck pure white, separated from each 

 other by a band of feathers of a pale rufous fawn-colour ; rest 

 of under surface of body pure white, broadly streaked with 

 rufous fawn-colour, these streaks becoming narrower on the 

 abdomen and disappearing on the under tail-coverts ; leg- 

 feathers entirely white ; under wing-coverts white ; the inner 

 ones and the axillaries washed with yellowish, the outer 

 ones streaked with brown; the greater series dark brown 

 at base, ashy brown at tip, resembling the inner lining 

 of the wing, which is ashy brown, broadly barred with white 

 on the inner web ; bill and irides pale yellow. Total length, 

 10'5 inches; wing, 7; tail, 3*8; tarsus, 1*25. 



Adult Male. — Similar to the female. Total length, 9*5 inches ; 

 wing, 6*4; tail, 3'6; tarsus 1*25. 



This species is certainly very closely allied to C. noctua ; 

 and the young appear to be almost indistinguishable from each 

 other. It may be regarded as a desert form of the European 

 bird, with a distinct range, being pale fawn-colour where 



