212 DR. J. J. KAUP’S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGIDA. 
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 perlineata, Hodgs. Journ. A. 8. B. 1837, p. 369. 
Stria 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. 
Hab. Northern Hindostan. 
8. ATHENE cucuLoipEs, 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 A. 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. 
Hab. Northern Hindostan. 
9. ATHENE capensis, A. Smith. 
Ill. 8. 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 
