72 Dr. A, Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



whitish, barred with brown : of toes whitish and short with faint 

 delineations of darker brown bars ; toes feathered as far as the 

 last joint, the feathers projecting over it. 



3rd primary longest ; 4th a little shorter ; barb of outer vane 

 of 1st primary revolute; length, 26^ inches; alar expanse 46j 



inches. 



2nd Subdivision. 



Heads without ears. 



S. cinerea. Great Grey or Cinereous owl. 

 S. Lapponica of Temmink. 

 Syrnium cinereum. Gmelin ! Audubon ! Baird. 

 v.s.p. Bill pale horn colour, thickly embedded in the cere 

 feather ; claws black ; irides yellow. Eggs 2, mottled with 

 blackish brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Facial disk large and well developed, black for 

 a short space, immediately anterior to the orbits ; all the rest 

 grey, barred with a blackish brown ; the bars concentric, 6 to 7 

 in number ; disk bounded posteriorly by a circle of feathers, the 

 front ones of which are velvety and of a deep liver brown colour ; 

 posterior ones white, with a deep brown streak along the shaft. 

 Dorsal region, except the quill feathers of the wing and tail, blackish 

 brown, mottled and barred with white, more or less pure. Quill 

 feathers of the wing and tail blackish brown, barred with a lighter 

 brown and mottled with dirty white, 5 to 6 bars; on the tail 

 there is the same number of bars, but not well defined, composed 

 of alternate deep clove brown and white streaks, with mottled 

 whitish brown interstices. These raotlings are most distinct on 

 the two centre feathers. 



Ventral aspect. Liver brown and white distributed in about 

 equal proportions, without regularity ; flank feathers brown, bar- 

 red with white ; wing and tail coverts dirty white, barred with 

 brown; tail and wings brownish slate colour, mottled and streaked 

 like the upper surface ; tarsal feathers long, impure white, barred 

 with brown; toes feathered as far as the origin of the claws; 

 claws long, not much curved, sharp and compressed beneath with 

 indications of a groove. 



In the specimen before me the 6th primary is longest ; 4th and 

 5th equal ; 3rd about 2 lines shorter ; 2nd about an inch shorter 

 than 3rd, and the 1st equal to the secondaries, in consequence of 

 which the wing when expanded has a rounded appearance ; tail 



