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the forehead nearly uniform ; the feathers of the hind part of tho 

 crown mottled with buify white, most of the feathers being spotted 

 Avith this colour, much more distinctly on the hind neck, the spots 

 being especiaUy large on the sides of the latter ; wing-coverts 

 brown like tho back, the least series with a few whity brown spots 

 of small size, the greater coverts largely spotted with white on the 

 outer web ; primary-coverts dark brown, with two rows of fulvous 

 spots ; quills brown, barred M'ith pale brown on both webs, the bars 

 not conterminous and represented on the primaries by a distinct 

 notch of huffy white, the bars on tho secondaries fulvous near the 

 base of tho inner web, the bars paler and less distinct on the inner- 

 most ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts nearly entirely uni- 

 form brown, without any of the white spots which mark the inter- 

 scapulary region ; tail brown, tipped narrowly with whitish, the 

 basal part almost entirely uniform, the exterior feathers barred with 

 lighter or more fulvous brown towards their tips; facial aspect grey 

 or whitish, much obscured with brown, this colour predominating on 

 the ear-coverts ; lores and feathers in front of the eye whitish, ob- 

 scured by blackish hair-like bristles ; the hinder part of the ear-coverts 

 grejish, mottled with brown and a little resembling the facial ruff, 

 which is very distinct and is composed of dark brown feathers spotted 

 with fulvous, being white streaked with brown just above the eyes, 

 where it forms two very distinct patches on each side of the fore- 

 head, and behind the ear-coverts it is white, also centred and tipped 

 with brown ; on the throat the feathers of the ruff are whitish with 

 dark brown centres ; iinder surface of body greyish white, streaked 

 with brown, the centres to the feathers being mostly of the latter 

 colour, broader on the chest, which is consequently more sombre ; on 

 the flanks the feathers are somewhat barred near the base as well as 

 streaked down the centre with brown ; vent tinged with fulvous ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with broad brown bars to the feathers, 

 radiating from the central streak ; leg-feathers fulvous, whiter on 

 the lower part, with remains of narrow brown bars on the latter ; 

 under wing-coverts huffy white, streaked with brown near the outer 

 edge of the wing ; the lower series yellowish at base, greyish brown 

 at tip, and resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are 

 greyish brown below, barred with huffy white, more plainly on the 

 inner web ; bill yellow ; claws pale horn-colour ; iris brown. Total 

 length 20 inches, wing 14-6, tail 11-4, tarsus 2-1. (Mus. Paris.) 

 Hab. Moupin. 



4. Syrnium cinereum. 



Cinereous Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 134. 



Sooty Owl, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 232. 



Strix cinerea, Gtn. S. N. i. p. 291 ; Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. p. 48 ; id. 



N. Diet. cTHist. Nat. vii. p. 23 ; Swains. Sf Rich. Favn. Bor.-Am. 



Birds, p. 77, pi. xxxi. ; Audub. B. N. Am. pi. cccli., et Orn. Biogr. 



iv. p. 3G4 ; Tyzenh. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1831, p. 577. 

 Strix acelaiuator, Bartr. Trav. Carol, p. 285. 

 Syrnium cinereum, Audub. Sgn. B. Amer. p. 26 ; De Kay, Zool. N. Y. 



Orn. p. 26, pi. xiii. fig. 29 ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 121 ; Cass. 



B. Calif, p. 184 ; Strirhl. Orn. Syn. p. 188 ; Kaup, Trans. Z. S. iv. 



