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C. noctua is dark brown : hence it has a generally pale appear- 

 ance. On raising the wing, the inner lining in C. glaux is very- 

 pale, and inclines to ashy brown, the white bars on the inner web 

 very broad and contrasting strongly, the bars on the inuer web 

 of the first primary being four in number. In C. noctua the 

 wing-lining is much darker brown, and only three bars are 

 apparent on the inner web of the first primary, all the bars on 

 the inner web being not quite so broad. These differences of 

 wing coloration are really very little more than part of the 

 general pale tone predominant in C. glaux, and hardly con- 

 stitute specific characters. A specimen of C. noctua from 

 Greece is so thoroughly intermediate that I am inclined to look 

 upon the two birds as races of one form. — Sharpens Catalogue. 



Both this species and bactriana have the breast and abdo- 

 men streaked, while in brama and pulchra these parts are 

 barred ; glaux has the toes scantily covered with hair, while 

 bactriana has them thickly feathered. — A. 0. H. 



76 ter— Carine bactriana, Rntton. 



Adult. — General colour deep fawn-brown; the head streaked 

 with buffy whitish ; all the streaks dilating towards their tips, 

 some of which have a subterminal spot ; hind neck largely 

 mottled with white ; many of the feathers broadly barred across 

 with white ; the outer webs of many of them also of the latter 

 colour ; interscapulary region tolerably uniform, the white spots 

 being concealed, but very distinct and oval in shape on the 

 scapulars ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, and distinctly 

 spotted with white ; the spots on the median and greater coverts 

 larger and more oval in form ; primary coverts dusky brown, 

 barred across with fawn-colour ; quills brown, rather more 

 dusky at tip, barred across with lighter and more rufous brown ; 

 the ends of the feathers greyish white ; all the rufescent bars 

 shading off into a white spot on the outer web, and giving a 

 chequered appearance to the wing; upper tail-coverts fawn- 

 colour, the bases white; tail pale fawn-colour, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with five rather irregular bands of fulvous 

 fawn ; lores pure white, as also a small superciliary streak, the 

 former with black shaft lines; ear-coverts fawn-colour, with 

 whitish shaft streaks, the feathers under the eye whitish ; 

 cheeks and throat white, extending in a triangular patch back- 

 wards below the ear-coverts; lower part of foreneck white, 

 separated from the throat by a band of rufescent feathers mot- 

 tled with whitish ; rest of under surface fawn-buff, inclininor to 



