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Ulula stridula, &■%, III. Brit. Orn. i. p. 102, pi. 2o, 

 Syruium oediiim, Brvhin, Nuum. 1855, p. 270. 

 Svi'iiiiiui rufescens, id. t. c. p. 270. 

 Syruium macroceplialuiu, id. t. c. p. 270. 



Young in down. Covered with white down, the sprouting feathers 

 yellowish, with dark brown cross markings ; bill ivory-white for the 

 apical half of both mandibles. 



Nestling. General colour above golden buff, everywhere banded 

 with dark brown, all the feathers tipped with white, producing a 

 hoary appearance ; wings much lighter than the back, the golden 

 interspaces and the terminal white margins both broader than on the 

 dorsal feathers ; primary-coverts dark brown, banded with lighter 

 and more reddish brown, inclining near the base to golden buff; 

 (jiiill-feathers, as far as developed, dark brown, inclining to greyish 

 at their tips, barred with ochraceous or reddish brown, inclining to 

 golden buff on their outer webs ; the secondaries tipped with whitish 

 and less distinctly barred, the interspaces thickly mottled with brown 

 vermiculations ; tail reddish, tipped with white and barred across 

 with brown, these bars dissolving on the inner web into brown ver- 

 miculations ; head more dusky than the rest of the upper surface ; 

 feathers round the eye whitish ; remainder of under surface golden 

 buff, inclining to white on the breast, the whole narrowly banded 

 across with dark brown ; leg-feathers almost entirely butfy white, 

 with a few bars of brown on the upper part of the tarsus. 



Adah female (grey phase). General colour above ashy grey, the 

 dorsal feathers slightly washed with rufous, and most of them streaked 

 down the centre with dark brown, with lateral zigzag lines of the 

 same, the interspaces between the latter being often white, this ar- 

 rangement giving a generally vermiculated appearance to the upper 

 aspect of the bird ; the outer scapulars more coarsely vermiculated, 

 and having a large oval spot of pure white externally ; wing-coverts 

 more rufescent than the back, the least ones reddish brown, centred 

 and vermiculated with dark brown, the median and greater series 

 rather greyer, more coarsely lined, barred with white externally, and 

 having a large ovate spot of white on the outer webs ; primary- 

 coverts reddish brown, barred across with dark brown ; primaries 

 ochraceous brown, inclining to white at their tips and barred across 

 with six broad bands of dark brown, not conterminous near the base 

 of those quills, the interspaces paler on the external web and incli- 

 ning to white towards the base ; the secondaries regularly barred 

 with light ochraceous brown and dark brown, the interspaces being 

 mottled all over with the latter colour, all the feathers tipped with 

 ■white ; the inner secondaries greyer and more like the back, mesially 

 streaked with dark brown and vermiculated with the same, the dark 

 brown bars complete onlj- on the inner web, and entirely broken up 

 on the innermost quills ; tail ashy rufous, tipped with whitish and 

 varied with dark brown zigzag markings, the outer feathers broadly 

 barred with dark brown, though most of the bars are more or less 

 dissolved ; crown of head dark brown, the feathers notched on both 

 webs with white or fulvous ; the hind neck and wig whiter than the 



