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Gray (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 844), and A. griseogularis, ejusd. (tom. cit. p. 343), 
with which they have been confounded — the former by both Schlegel (Valkv. 
Nederl. Ind. pi. iii. %. 2) and Kaup (P. Z. S. 1807, p. 177), the latter by 
the last-named writer (to?n. cit. p. 175). A. equatorialis and A, sgloostris are 
also good species. A. E. Wallace, Ibis, 1808, pp. 7-10. 
Accqnter cruentus, Wall. ” (P. Z. S. 1803, p. 484), from Timor, is really 
A. torquatus (Temni .) ; but A. torquatus, Vig. k Ilorsf., is Sparvius cirrho^ 
cephalus, Vieill. Whether A. crucntus is a good species seems doubtful. Id. 
tom. cit. pp. 11, 12. 
Acdpiter, sp., from Dauria, of small size, rufescent beneath barred with 
dusky (cf. Radde, Eeis.S. O.-Sib. ii. p. 110). B. Dybowski & A. Parrex, J. f. 0. 
1868, p. 331. 
Accipiter chilensis is figured. P. L. Sclater Sc 0. Salviu, Ex. Orn. pi. xxxvii. 
Accipiter gdbar has never been found in Portugal as has been asserted of 
it (Naumannia, 1856, p. 267) under the vague name of Adur micronisusj 
Bp.” A. 0. Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 436. 
Nisus communis preying on Sciurus vidgaris. K. Muller, J. f. 0. 1868, 
pp. 245, 246. 
, STRIGIDiE. 
Sgrnium ftdvescetis is a new species from Guatemala, resembling S. nelulo- 
sum but smaller, more fulvous, and the toes bare except at the upper part of 
the phalanges. It is JS. nebidosum, Scl. & Salv. (Ibis, 1859, p. 221), nec 
Strix nebulosa, Forst. A list of the five American spocios_^of the genus 
known to the authors is given, and it is remarked that species of the genus 
Ciccaba have been much mixed up with them, though the presence of the 
ear-opercle in the latter affords a ready means of distinguishing between 
them. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 58, 59. 
Athene strenua is figured. S. Biggies, Om. Austral, pt. xix. 
Athene noctua^ a vaviety from Bauria is described, of lai’ge size, with tarsi 
and toes feathered and pale in colour. B. Bybowski & A. Parrex, J. f. O. 
1868, p. 331. 
Nociua poUeni (Zool. Eec. ii. p. 94) is figured. H. Schlegel & F. P. L. Pol- 
len, Eech. Faun! Madag. pi. 17. 
Micrathene ^hitneyi (Zool. Eec. iii. p. 75) is figured. B. G. Elliot, B. N. 
Am. pt. xii. 
Gymnoglaux lawrencii is described and figured from Cuba, differing from 
O. nudipes from Porto Eico and the Virgin Islands by being entirely fuscous 
above, sprinkled with white spots *, and the tarsi almost wholly bare. The 
two birds were formerly distinguished by Mr. Lawrence (Ann. Lyc. N. II. 
New York, 1860, pp. 257, 258), who applied the name nudipes to the Cuban 
form, calling the more eastern one newtoni. It is, however, clear that the 
Porto Eico bird must bear the name nudipes, the type specimen, still in Paris, 
having been brought thence by Mauge (Baud., Tr. d’Orn. ii. p. 199) and it is 
* The plate represents G. laiorencU .as being rather reddish-brown than 
fuscous but specimens from the Virgin Islands also have white spots (cf. 
Ibis, 1859, pp. 6^66, pi. i,, and 1860, p. 209 ) ; the difference in the tarsus, 
shown by the authors m a woodcut, is, however, a perfectly good diagnostic 
character j and in each of tliese little Owls, as in many other species, tiiere is 
no doubt a reddish as well as a fuscous phase, whether owing to age or sex 
seems tq be at present undecided. 
