LEAST EUROPEAN SPARROW OWL. 129 



An adult female in the Norwich Museum has the 

 head and back chesnut brown; nape variegated with 

 white; face grey; throat and belly white, nearly covered 

 with light chesnut markings; primaries spotted with 

 white; tail colour of back, with three spotted transverse 

 bands; under tail coverts white. 



Figured by Le Vaillant in "Ois: d' Afrique," pi. 46; 

 Gould, pi. 50; Nilsson, "Faun. Scand.," pi. 3; Naumann, 

 pi. 43. 



Our figure of this bird is from the drawing of a 

 specimen in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, 

 done with great exactitude by my wife. 



The figure of this egg is from a drawing sent to 

 us by M. Moquin-Tandon, with the following remarks: — 

 "This drawing was sent to me by M. des Murs, and 

 is taken from an egg in his collection. Of all the 

 Night Birds of Europe this species has the most elon- 

 gated egg. M. Thienemann (pi. 3, fig. 2,) has given a 

 drawing of an egg of this species, of which the smallest 

 end appears to be rather too pointed." 



