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BCBONIDiR. 



colour ; claws horny grey ; iris hazol. Total length 12-2 inches, 

 wing S-4. tail 5-1, tarsus 1-55. 



Obs. Mr. Gosse's typical specimen differs somewhat from the one 

 described in the less rufescent tone of the plumage, especially under- 

 neath, where the bird is also plainly vermiculated with brown cross 

 lines ; the bars on the tail about nine in number. 



Hab. Jamaica. 



Foot of Asio grammicus. 



a. Ad. st. Jamaica. 



b. Jut. st. Jamaica. 



c. Ad. st. Jamaica. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Near Spanishtown, Jamaica, 



Oct. 1862 (TF. T. Marsh). 



e. Sternum. Jamaica. 



P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. Type 



of species. 

 P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. 

 P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. 

 Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. 



16. SYRNIUM. 



Type. 



Symium, Saviff>i. Bcscr. Bgypte, p. 298 (1809) S. aluco. 



L'lula, Cnvier, Bepi. Anim. i. p. 329 (1817) S. uralense. 



Aluco, Kaup, Naiiirl. 8yst. p. 190 (1829, nee Flem.) . . S. aluco. 



Ciccaba, IFaf/Ier, Isis, 1832, p. 1222 S. huhulum. 



Bulaca, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 169 (1836) S. newarense. 



Scotiaptex, Sivains. Class)/. B. ii. p. 217 (1837) S. cinereum. 



Meseidus, Hodgs. J. A. 8. B. x. p. 28 (1841) S. newarense. 



Pulsatrix, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 771 S. torquatum. 



PtjTix, Bp. Consp. I. p. 53 (1850) S. uralense. 



Myrtha, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541 S. seloputo. 



Macabra, Bp. I. c. p. 541 S. hylophUum. 



GiseUa, Bp. I. c. p. 541 S. harrisi. 



Range. The whole of the New World, and the entire Old World 

 also, excepting Madagascar, the Austro-Malayan subregion, Australia, 

 and Oceania. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown of head mottled or barred, never entirely uniform. 

 a'. Toes plumed*. 



a". Belly with mesial streaks of blackish. 



* SyTrnium fulvescens, Sol. & Salv., seems to be the only exception. 



