. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 188 !:. tiiil dark brown, rather broadly tipped with whitish, and crossed with six other bands of bufi'y wliite, of which two are concealed by the upper tail-coverts ; eyebrow and sides of face dull whitish, all the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown, the ear-coverta washed with fulvous ; cheeks whitish, extending backwards in a large patch behind the ear-coverts, all tlie feathers with concealed bases and narrow shaft-stripes of brown ; throat dusky brown ; rest of under surface deep ochraceous, with broad dark brown centres t
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 188 !:. tiiil dark brown, rather broadly tipped with whitish, and crossed with six other bands of bufi'y wliite, of which two are concealed by the upper tail-coverts ; eyebrow and sides of face dull whitish, all the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown, the ear-coverta washed with fulvous ; cheeks whitish, extending backwards in a large patch behind the ear-coverts, all tlie feathers with concealed bases and narrow shaft-stripes of brown ; throat dusky brown ; rest of under surface deep ochraceous, with broad dark brown centres to the feathers, much broader and more rufous on the flanks; under tail-feathers uniform ochraceous; leg-feathers dull whitish ; under â wing-coverts deep rufous ochre, "with brown centres to the feathers as on the breast, the greater series ashy brown, barred with white on the inner web, exactly in the same manner as the inner lining of the wing, which is ashy brown with lighter brown bars on the inner web, inclining to white towards the base of the quills ; bill black, horn-colour towards the tip; toes fleshj- brown, covered with coarse 3'ellow hairs ; claws black ; iris dark reddish brown. Total length 18-5 inches, wing 104, tail 6-5, tarsus i!-65. Hah. New Zealand. Juv. St. New Zealand. Tercv Earl, Esq. [C. j. Ad. St. New Zealand. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. Capt. Stokes [P.]. Ad. St. New Zealand. 13. GLAUCIDIUM. ,â Type. Glaucidium, Boie, Isis, 182G, p. 970 G. passeriuum. Nyctipetes, Swains. Clussif. B. ii. p. 218 G. pei-latum. Taenioglaux, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 709 G. radiatum. Tffinioptynx, Kauj), I. c. p. 768 G. brodiei. Microglaux, Kaup, I. c. p. 709 G. perlatum. Mieroptynx, Kaup, Cwitr. Orn. , p. 106 G. passeriuum. Smithiglaux, Bp. Rw. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544 G. capeuse. Phalsenopsis, Bp. I. c. p. 544 G. Wing of Ghnicidiitin Range. The greater part of the Old World, including the Palas- arctic, Ethiopian, and Indian regions : but not f
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