GLAUCIDIUM RADIATUM. 



(THE JUNGLE OWLET.) 



Strix radiata, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 572. 



Noctua perlineata, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 269. 



Athene erythroptera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 136. 



Athene undulata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 457. 



Athene radiata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 281 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 39 (1849) ; Horsf. 



& Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 67 (1854); Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 143 (1862); 



Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 409; id. Nests and Eggs, i. p. 70 (1873); Ball, Str. Feath. 



1874, p. 383; Hume & Butler, ibid. 1875, p. 450. 

 Tcenioglaux radiata, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Noctua radiata, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 34. 



Glaucidium radiatum, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259 ; id. Cat. Birds, ii. p. 217 (1875). 

 Glaucidium malabarieum, Legge, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 242 (first record of species from 



Ceylon). 

 The Barred Owlet of some ; Jungli Choghad, Hind. ; Chagad, Nepaul ; Chota Ralpencha, 



Beng. ; Adaci paine gunte, Tel. (Jerdon). 



Adult f, mah . Length to front of cere 7 - 9 inches ; culmen from cere 0'7 ; wing 5-1 ; tail 2-6 ; tarsus 1"0 ; mid toe 0-8, 

 its claw (straight) 0-5 ; height of bill at cere 0-3. 



The above measurements are taken from the only specimen procured in Ceylon. A series of North-Indian G. radiatum 

 gives as follows — wing 4 - 8 to 5 - 4 inches ; tail 2-5 to 2*7. 



Iris pale greenish yellow : bill and cere dusky greenish, tip of the mandible yellowish ; feet greenish yellow. 



Entire head above, sides and back of neck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and tertials a dark and 

 somewhat ashen brown, closely and narrowly barred with rufescent white on the upper parts, and with white on 

 the longer scapulars, tertials, and tail-coverts ; the lateral scapulars with broad bars of white on the outer webs ; 

 lesser wing-coverts obscurely barred with rufescent ; winglet, outer median and greater coverts dark brown, barred 

 narrowly with rufous, the outermost median feathers with a broad white patch on their outer webs ; primaries and 

 secondaries rich hair-brown, crossed with bands of rufous, paling into whitish at the edge of the louger primaries 

 and near the tips of the secondaries ; tail darker brown than the primaries, tipped and crossed with seven narrow 

 bars of white. 



Lores blackish, the basal portions of the webs whitish; face and ear-coverts concolorous with the head, but more openly 

 barred; chin whitish, the plumes tipped with black ; beneath the cheeks a broad band of white running beneath 

 the ear-coverts, and an extensive patch of the same on the lower part of the fore neck : across the throat a band of 

 In-own, narrowly barred with pale rufescent, blending into the markings of the hind neck ; chest, sides of breast, 

 Hanks, aud thigh-coverts a blacker brown than the upper surface, barred on the chest with fulvous-white, aud on the 

 lower parts with broader bands of white ; down the centre of the breast, the abdomen, under tail-coverts, and legs 

 white ; outer side of thighs and upper portion of tarsus barred with brown : under tail-coverts marked with bar- 

 like spots, of the same ; under wing-coverts fulvous-white, paling into white at the edge of the wing, and marked 

 down the centre with a longitudinal band of rufous, the feathers composing it spotted with brown ; under surface 

 of base of primaries rufescent. 



' '■ . The example from which the above description is taken corresponds with a uumber of North-Bengal, Darjiling, 

 aud Nepaul examples in the collection of the British Museum, and is another of the singular instances, exemplified 

 iu Spizaetus Icelaarti (the Ceylonese race of S. nijaalensis), Bubo nipalensis, and others, in which a North-Indian 

 bird is found to extend its range to Ceylon over the heads, so to speak, of the South-Indian and neighbouring 

 6pecies. Not being well acquainted while in Ceylon with either G. radiatum or G. malaharicum, I naturally assigned 



