IG. SYRXIUM. 247 



<■/". Leof-feathers blacli, barrc-d with white. 

 if". Crown of head and back black, with nu- 

 merous white wavy lines huhuhon, p. 275. 



h"'. Crown of head and back uniform black | ^^WoU'mitum, p 270. 



j spilonotum, p. 277. 

 . Crown of he.id uniform brown. 

 c'. Ear-coverts whitish, narrowly barred with 



dark brown : chest brown, nan-owly barred , „oi 



across with whitish neicarense, p. 281. 



i tndranee, p. 282. 

 d'. Ear-coverts uniform ; chest also perfectly uni- 

 form. 

 e". Chest chocolate-brown ; forehead uniform 

 with crown. 

 i"'. Breast uniform buff; toes feathered .... perspicilktinn, p. 277. 

 k'". Breast buff, with broad rufous bars ; toes 



Ijare melanoiiotum , p. 280. 



f". Chest fulvous like the rest of the under sur- 

 face, with no pectoral band ; forehead buffy 

 white ; fore part of ear-coverts fulvous, the 

 hinder part blackish harrisi, p. 283. 



1. Syrnium aluco. 



The Brown Owl, Albin, Birds, i. pi. 9. 



Le Chat-huant, Briss. Orn. i. p. 500 ; Biif. PL Enl 437. 



La Hulotte, Briss. Orn. i. p. 507 ; Buff. PL EnL 441. 



Strix aluco, Linn. S. N. i. p. 132 ; PaU. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 321 ; 



VieiU. Faun. Fran<^. p. 45, pi. 21. fig. 2 ; JVamn. Vog. DeutschL 



p. 473, pis. 4(i, 47. tig. 1 ; Boiicr, Orn. Prorenq. i. p. 76, pis. 50-52 ; 



Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 'io ; ScM. u. Susein. Viiy. Eur. Taf. 45 ; 



Nurdm. in Eemid. Voy. iii. p. 110 ; Sundev. Sv. FogL p. 184, pi. xxv. 



fig. 4 ; Neiiion, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 140 ; Shdleg, B. Egypt, p. 176. 

 Strix stridula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 153 ; VieilL Faun. Franq. p. 44, pi. 21. 



tig. 1 ; Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 131. 

 Austrian Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. p. 130. 

 Solognese Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. p. 137. 

 Strix sylvestris. Scop. Ann. i. p. 21 ; Gm. S. N. p. 292. 

 Strix soloniensis, Gm. S. X. i. p. 292 ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 62. 

 Strix austriaca, Shau; Gen. Zool. vii. p. 247. 

 Strix sylvatica, Shaw, Gen. ZooL vii. p. 253. 

 Syrnium ululans, Savign. Descr. Egypte, p. 298. 

 Syi-niura stridulum, Steph. Gen. ZooL xiii. pt. 2, p. 62 ; Brehm, Kaum. 



1855, p. 27. 

 Syraium aluco, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315; Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 114; 



Brehm, V. D. p. 115; Goidd, B.Eur, pi. 47; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 39, pi. 14. fig. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 51 ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 121 ; SchL Yog. NederL pi. 42 ; StricM. Orn. Syn. p. 180; Fritsch, 



Vog. Eur. tab. 11. tig. 8 ; Juub. c^- Barth. Lap. Rich. Orn. p. 84 ; 



Gould, B. GL Br. i. pi. xxiv. : Newt. Ooth. Wolley. p. 176 ; DegL 



8^ Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 127 ; Loche, E.ipL Sci. Alger. Ois. i. p. 94; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 48 ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 27. 

 Aluco aluco, Kaup, XatiirL Sysf. p. 190. 

 Ulula aluco, Eeijs. ^- Bias. IVirb. Eur. p. 33 ; Macgill. Brit. B. iii, 



p. 338 ; SchL Mtis. P.-B. Striges, p. 12 ; Borggr. Vogelf. Nord- 



deufschL p. 63. 

 Aluco stridulus, 3Iacyill. Brit. Riipt. p. 307. 



