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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 Cabouré. In his travels he very 
often heard its voice, which has a great similarity to that of Falco subbuteo, and 
sounds nearly like Keck-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. Microglauz. 
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. LEar-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. Tibi 
and the upper part of the whitish, black-spotted tarsi rusty-yellow. 
Hab. Cuba. (Mus. Berol.) 
* This species should stand as Glaucidium sigu, Cab. Journ. f. Orn, 1855, p. 465. Noctua sigu, D’Orb. (P. L. S.) 
