258 BUBONIBiE. 



a spot, the innermost ones barred with white; upper tail-coverts 

 light brown, banded with white or pale yellowish; tail brown, 

 rather broadly tipped with white and crossed with five other bands 

 of yellowish, inchning to white on the outer webs ; frontal plumes 

 dark brown ; facial aspect duU white, obscurely barred with brown ; 

 the feathers in front and over the eye and the loral plumes purer 

 wliite, the latter terminating in blackish bristles, the plumes round 

 the eye dark brown ; facial ruff dark brown, banded with white or 

 yellowish, especially on the lower portion ; chin dusky brown, with 



Foot of Si/rnium nebulositm, to show extent of feathering. 



whitish shaft-lines ; rest of under surface yellowish white, the breast 

 barred with brown and the flanks broadly streaked down the centre 

 with the same colour, the abdomen and under tail-coverts much more 

 narrowly streaked ; leg-feathers dull white, everywhere minutely 

 spotted and barred with brown ; under wing-coverts white, streaked 

 with brown, the inner ones washed with yellowish ; the lower series 

 ashy brown, barred with yellowish white on the inner web, the base 

 being entirely of the latter colour; and hence this series resembles the 

 inner lining of the wing, which is dull or ashy brown, regularly and 

 broadly barred with yellowish white ; biU yellow ; iris brownish 

 black. Total length 20 inches, wing 12-8, tail 9, tarsus 2-5. 



Hab. Eastern region of the United States. 

 a. Ad. St. North America. Lord Odo Russell [P.]. 



8. Syrniumfulvescens*. 



Symium fulvescens, Scl. 8f Sah. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 58 ; Gray, Hioid-l. 



B. i. p. 48 ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. p. 116. 

 Ulula fulvescens, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Mevue Aceipitr. p. 19. 



* Syrnium sartorii. 



Mr. Ridgway separates a race from Mirador, Mexico, as Syrnium nehdosum, 

 var. sartorii, with the following diagnosis: — "Colours blackish sepia and clear 

 white ; face without any darker concentric rings." lie describes the race fully 

 as follows (N.-Am. B. iii. p. 29) : — " In general appearance like .■?. nebulosum, 

 but the brown very much darker and less reddish, that of the markings below 

 Tery nearly black : the pattern, however, precisely the same ; and there is about 



