BUBONID^ GLAUCIDIUM 257 



Key of the Species. 



A. Smaller, wing under 5'0 ; centre of back and 



tail brown with pearly-white spots G. perlatum, p. 257. 



B. Larger, wing over 5-0 ; centre of back and 



tail barred with brown and ochre-yellow. G. capense, p. 259. 



500. Glaucidium perlatum. Pearl-spoited Owl. 



La Chevechette perlee, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 120, pi. 284 (1808). 



Strix perlata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. \n, p. 26 (1817). 



Noctua perlata, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii, p. 313 (1884). 



Strix licua, Licht. Verz. Sdugeth. u. Vog. Eaffernl. p. 12 (1842). 



Athene licua, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 38 (1867). 



Athene perlata, Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 37 (1872) ; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 149 [Limpopo]. 



Carine perlata, Bulhley, Ibis, 1874, p. 361 [Tati]; Sharpe, ed, Layard' s 

 B. a. Afr. pp. 77, 802 (1874-85) ; Flech, J. Ornith. 1894, p. 394 ; 

 Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 167. 



Glaucidium perlatum, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 209 (1875) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1879, p. 287 [Bustenburg]; Dates, Matabeleland, p. 300 (1881) ; Holub 

 I,- Pelzeln, Orn. Sud-Afr. p. 40 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239 

 [Umfuli river]; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 49 [Lehtaba river] ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 142 (1896) ; Woodward Bros, and Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, pp. 

 414, 496 ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 157 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 

 1900, p. 260 [Salisbury] ; Alexander, ibid. p. 432 [Zambesi Valley] ; 

 Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 674 (1901). 



" Mundugulu '■■ of Zulus (Woodward) and of Matabele (Ayres). 



Description. Adult male. — General colour above, pale-brown, 

 covered on the crown, back and wing-coverts with rounded black- 

 edged spots of white ; along the scapulars the spots are larger, 

 forming a longitudinal line ; round the hind neck an irregular collar 

 of white feathers slightly mottled with dark-brown and washed 

 towards the tip with rufous ; wing-quills brown, spotted with white 

 merging into rufous on both the inner and outer webs ; tail-feathers 

 dark-brown with a row of four darker-edged white spots on either 

 web ; facial disc not well defined, greyish-white ; no ear tufts ; 

 below, chin and lower throat white divided by a patch of brown ; 

 rest of the lower surface mottled-brown and white, the former pre- 

 dominating on the breast, the latter on the abdomen, which with the 

 under tail-coverts is almost pure white ; tarsi, feathered to the 

 basal joint of the toes, white spotted with brown ; toes covered 

 with a few scattered bristles hardly concealing them. 



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