364 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



white on the centre of the body, streaked with rufous brown ; the 

 ceutres to the feathers very broad and distinct on the breast, 

 much narrower on the sides of body, and absent altogether on 

 the lower flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts ; leg- feathers 

 whitish, light fawn on their outer aspects; under wing-coverts 

 whitish, with a few slight markings of brown here and there, 

 the lower series whitish at base, ashy brown at tip, and thus 

 resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are pale ashy 

 brown, barred with buffy white on the inner web. Total length, 

 8 inches; wing, 6*1 ; tail, 3'4; tarsus, 115. — Sharpe's Catalogue. 

 For distinctions between this and other congeners, see remarks 

 on preceding species. 



78 5is.— Glaucidium castaneonotum, Bly. 



The following is Mr. Blyth's original description : — " Entire 

 mantle and wings deep chestnut rufous, more or less obscurely 

 barred with subdued dusky ; primaries light dusky, faintly 

 barred with rufous on the inner webs, and with a series of spots 

 of bright rufous on the outer webs ; tail dusky, with eight or 

 nine narrow white, or whitish bars, the last of these terminal ; 

 head and neck closely barred with bright rufescent on a dusky 

 ground, contrasting strongly with the rufous of the back ; 

 breast nearly similar, but the colours deeper ; abdomen white, 

 with longitudinal dusky streaks ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 pure white ; bill pale yellow ; irides red brown ? Wing about 

 5. — Hume, a Rough Notes" 



81 quat— Ninox afHnis, Tytler. 



Dimensions. — Length, 10 ; expanse, 18*3 ? ; wiug, 6*9 ; tail 

 from vent, 4*4 ; tarsus (covered with hairrlike feathers,) 1"0 ; foot 

 covered with stiff bristles ; bill from gape, 0*8. 



Description. — All the upper surface rufous brown, with the 

 slaty bases of the lax feathers showing through in many places, 

 thus giving it move or less a slaty tinge ; on the tail-feathers 

 there are six well-defiued blackish bars ; the tips of all are 

 brown ; the inner webs of the quill feathers are dark ; chin 

 albescent ; throat, breast and abdomen rufous ; breast, abdomen, 

 and flanks striped, that is to say, each feather being albescent 

 at the margins, rufous at the tips, and darker near the shaft, 

 gives the appearance of being streaked ; vent and under 



