16. SYRNITTM. 257 



Syrnium fuscescens, Temin. <§• ScM. Faun. Japan. Aves, pi. 10 ; G^ray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 39 ; Cass. Cat. Strigidce Philad. Mus. p. 5 ; Strickl. 

 Om. Sifn. p. 190. 



Ptyux fascescens, Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 5.3. 



Ulula fuscescens, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 11. 



Syrnium fulvescens, Gray, Hancl-l. B. i. p. 45 {nee Scl. Sc Salv.). 



Syrnium rufescens, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. '2oQ, note. 



This Owl is so very similar to *S'. uralense that Professor Schlegel 

 only gives us its specific characters — a shghtly smaller size and 

 general darker coloration, inclining to rufous. I have only examined 

 one specimen in the Museum, and this measures as follows — total 

 length 23 inches, wing 12-7, tail IQ-o, tarsus 2. 



Hob. Japan. 



a. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Dec. 12tb, 1865 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



{H. miitely). 



7. Syrnium nebulosum. 



Strix nebulosa, Forstei-, Phil. Trans, xxii. p. 38G ; Vieill. Ois. de TAm. 



Sept. pi. xvii. ; Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. p. 61, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 ; Temm. 



Man. 1. p. 88 ; Werner, Atlas, Eapaces, pi. 34 ; Attduh. B. Amer. 



pi. xl\-i., et Om. Biogr. i. p. 242 ; IStvains. ^ Rich. Faun. Bur.-Am. 



Birds, p. 81 ; Gould, B. Fur. i. pi. xlvi. 

 Barred Owl, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 234, pi. 11. 

 Strix varius. Barton, Frag. N. H. Penn. p. 11. 

 Ulula nebulosa, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. GO ; Less. Man. i. 



p. 113 ; James, edit. Wils. B. N. Amer. i. p. 107 ; Gould, B. Fur. 



pi. 46 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 ; id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 540 ; 



Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 11. 

 Syrnium nebulosum, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 39 ; 



Cass. Cat. Striqidm Philad. Mus. p. 4 ; Fa up, Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 256 ; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 121 ; Strickl. Orn. Sipi. p. 189 : Cass. 



B. Calif, p. 185 ; id. B. N. Amer. p. 56 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 39 ; 



Baird, in Cooper's B. Calif, p. 431 ; Coues, Key N.-A. Birds, p. 204 ; 



id. B. N. W. p. 308 ; Ridgw. N.-Am. B. iii. p. 34. 



Adult. General colour above brown, the head rather darker than 

 the back, the entire upper surface barred across with broad bands of 

 yellowish bufi^, rather whiter on the hind neck and wig, and decidedly 

 white on the back, where the markings are less distinctly in the 

 form of bars, being often confined to white notches on each side of 

 the feather ; wing-coverts brown, the least series with minute yel- 

 lowish or white spots, the median and greater series more largely 

 spotted with white, the latter being also faintly barred across wath 

 lighter brown ; primarj'-coverts dark brown, barred across with yel- 

 lo'wish brown ; quills dark brown, barred with lighter brown, the 

 primaries externally spotted with yeUowish white, producing a di- 

 stinctly chequered appearance ; the secondaries regularly barred with 

 light brown, inclining to white on the outer web, and there forming 



' Fauna Japonica ;' so that some lapsus calami has occurred on the part of the 

 original describers. Under these circumstances it seems better to adopt the 

 latter title, which is the only one applicable to the species and is the one which 

 Prof. Schlegel, in his later works, has applied to it. 



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