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PKEYIXG BIKDS — RAPTORES. 



Genus SYRNIUM, Savigny. 



Si/rnium, Savigny, Hist. Nat. d'Egyptc, I. 1809, 112. 



Gen. Char. Size usually large ; head large, without cai-tufts ; eyes rather small ; 

 bill strong, curved from the base : fourth and fifth quills longest ; tail rather long, wide, 

 rounded ; legs moderate or rather long ; claws long, strong, very sharp. Conch of the 

 ear a simjjle oval cavity only half the height of the cranium. 



A genus containing fifteen or twenty .species, chiefly from tlie uortliein 

 parts of the world. 



S3n:nium occidentale, Xaxtus. 



THE WESTERN BAERED OWL. 



Si/rnium occidentale, Xaxtls, Proc. A. N. Sc. riiil. XI. Jidy, 18.59, 193. — Baird, Cassin, 

 and Lawrence, Birds N. Amer. II. v. ; ]jI. Ixvi. 1860. Index, p. v. descr. 



Sp. Char. General color liver-brown, the feathers barred everywhere, c\-en on the 

 flanks. AxUlars and under wing and tail coverts banded transversely with white, the 



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