Ordo R a p to r e s .
Fam. S t r ig id /e .
Genus N o c t u a , C u v .
Ta b . IV.
NOCTUA CUCUUOÍDES.
N o c t. h n im w o -fu s ca ; ca p ite , dorso, te c tr ic ib u s a la rum , corporequc su b tu s albo g r a c ilite r fa s c ia t i s ;
r em ig ih u s externe, albo m a cu la tis ; r e c tr k ib u s a tr in q u e f asciis a lb is q u in q u é n o ta t i s ; g u la
alba.
L oiig iliitlo corporis, 9 t u n e .; aleo, 51-; caudas, 3->; ta r s i, I I .
T his small Owl, ivliicli is here placed among; that division o f the family to which M. Cnvlcr has applied the
title of N e e tim , is the only e.vample o f the species that has as yet come under onr observation. Tliere is
an African species figured in the splendid Work of M. Tcmnilnck •, which closely resembles it botli in size and
the general character of its plumage; the colour of the upper snrfaee, however, is more rufous, and the
transverse bars less numerous and more obscure, being whiter wltli large irregular spots of deep clicstniit,
and assuming the figure of regular bars on the side of the chest. The present species may be observed
to be more uniform in its plumngc, being brown above and below with distinct narrow lines of yellowish white,
and exhibiting the style of colouring of the immature Cuckoo, whence its specific name of cueuldidcs. It
appears to he strictly confined to the range of the llimalay<an jMonntains, having never been brought to
Europe, so far as is known, from any other part of India.
Ill size, the Aocftra eucuUides closely approximates to the Pa sse rin e Owl of Europe, to which wc should
expect it to be allied in habits and manners.
* ChoueUe Brame, PI. Col. 68.
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