16. sTRNim. 255 



ashy whitish, barred with broad wavy lines of blackish ; lores and 

 feathers above the eye whitish, the plumes immediately over the 

 latter black ; facial ruff dark chocolate-brown, most of the feathers 

 behind the ear tipped and barred with tawny buff, producing a 

 hig;hly mottled appearance, those on the lower parts whitish, with 

 central streaks of dark brown ; chin-feathers dark brown, with a 

 few spots of whitish on the margins of some of the feathers ; rest of 

 under surface dull whitish, -with broad streaks of brown, most of the 

 feathers having obsolete bars of light brown ; the leg-feathers very 

 thicldy barred with brown ; under wing-coverts dull white, plenti- 

 fully streaked and barred with brown, the lower series dark brown, 

 yellowish at base, resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is 

 dark brown, barred with yellowish near the base of the inner web. 

 Total length 28 inches, wing 18-6, tail 13*5, tarsus 3-1. 



Hah. Northern Europe, extending but rarely into the central 

 portion. 



a. Ad. st. Europe. 



b. Ad. st. North Europe. Le Oonite de Tyzenhauz [P.]. 



6. Syrnium uralense. 



Strix uralensis, Pall. Reise, i. p. 455; Teitim. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 84; 



id. PI. Col. 27 ; Naiim. 7%. Deictschl. i. p. 422, pi. 42. fi^. 1 ; 



Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. .32 ; Schl. u. Susem. Vog. JSur. Taf. 42 ; 



Midd. Si'bir. Reise, Zool. p. 129; Schrenk, Reis. Amurl: p. 245 ; 



Simdei\ Sv. Fogl. p. 18G ; Radde, Reis. Sibir. p. 121. 

 Strix liturata, Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 79 ; Swidev. 8r. Fogl. pi. xxiv. 



fig- 2. 

 Strix macruva, 3Ieijer u. Wolf, Taschenb. p. 84 (e.r Natt. MS.) ; iid. 



Viig. Detitschl. pi. to p. 184. 

 Strix macrocephala, Meisner, Syst. Verz. Vog. Schiceiz. p. 34. 

 Surnia uralense, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, pi. 40 ; Gould, B. Eur. 



i. pi. 44. 

 Ulula litm-ata, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 60. 

 S\Tnium uralense, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315 ; Brehm, Vog. Dettischl. 



p. 115; Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. S,- N. Am. p. 6 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 39 ; Cass. Cat. Striqidce Philad. Mus. p. 5 ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 121, et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 257 ; StricM. Orn. Syn. p. 189 ; 



Fritsch, Viig. Eur. tab. 12. figs. 1, 2 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 48. 

 Noctua uralensis, Cuv. Rigne An. i. p. 344. 

 SjTuium macrocephalum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p, 115. 

 Scotiaptex m-alensis, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 217. 

 Ptynx uralensis, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 8 (1841); Bp. Cinup. i. p. 53; 



id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541 ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. 



p. 129. 

 Ulula lu-alensis, Keys. u. Bias, Wirb. Eur. p. xxxii ; Schl. Mns. P.-B. 



Striges, p. 10 ; Borggr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 62. 

 Ptj-nx liturata, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 270. 



Adult female. General colour above didl white, streaked with dark 

 brown, all the feathers being brown in the centre with broad lateral 

 margins of white ; the scapulars purer white externally, the central 

 brown streaks narrower, so that these plumes stand out in relief 

 against the dorsal feathers ; wing-coverts rather browner than the 



