l(). sYRNirsi. 261 



10. Syrnium rufipes. 



Strix rufipes, Khtff, Zool. Jouni. iii. p. 426. 



Uliila rulipes, Gould, Voy. Beayle, Birds, p. 34. 



Athene nitipes, Grai/, Gim. B. i. p. 35 : Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 172. 



Ulula fasciata, Bes Murs, Iconogr. Orn. pi. xxxvii. ; Gray, Gen. B, 



iii. App. p. 30 a. 

 SYrnium fasciatum, Bp. Cons2). i. p. 52 ; Strickl. Oni. Syn. p. 192 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 48. 

 Syruium rufipes, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 48; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. 



At: jVeotr. p. 116. 



Adult. Above chocolate-brown, barred with yellowish buff and 

 white, the yellow bars mostly concealed, the white bars conspicuous 

 and subterminal ; round the hind neck a very distinct wig, with 

 broad white bars ; the head rather darker than the back, with di- 

 stinct bars of yellowish biiif and white, the latter broader than on 

 the back ; least wing-coverts not quite so plainly barred with buff, 

 but the median and greater series very distinctly barred with tawny 

 buff, and externally notched mth white, all these markings being 

 also very distinct on the scapulars ; primary-coverts nearly uniform 

 brown ; quills brown, barred across with lighter brown, shading off 

 into buffy white on both the inner and outer webs, the primaries 

 with large square spots of yellowish buff; tail brown, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with eight other fulvous bars, becoming whiter 

 towards the tips of the feathers ; loral plumes silvery white, the 

 shafts developing into hair-like blackish bristles ; feathers in front 

 of the eye blackish brown ; rest of facial disk dusky greyish white, 

 the feathers below the eye tawny buff, all with obsolete concentric 

 bars of dusky brown, the ear-coverts narrowly streaked with silvery 

 white lines along the shaft ; facial ruff deep chocolate-brown, the 

 feathers spotted and tipped with fulvous, the white bars very distinct 

 towards the tips of the feathers ; entire under surface of body washed 

 with yellowish, the bases of the feathers showing here and there, all 

 crossed with broad transverse bars of white and pale brown, aljout 

 equal in width but less distinct on the under tail-coverts ; leg- 

 feathers yellowish buff; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, the 

 median ones and the axillaries barred with brown and white to a 

 greater or less extent ; greater series dark brown, inclining to yel- 

 lowish at base, and resembling the inner lining of the quills, which 

 are dark brown below, barred with fulvous. Total length IS inches, 

 wing 11-1, tail 7*8, tarsus 2. 



Hub. Patagonia and Chili. 



a. Ad. sk. Port Famine. Capt. King [C.]. Type of species. 



b. Ad. St. Straits of Magellan. J. Gould, Esq. 



11. Syrnium sinense. 



China Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Sitppl. ii. Add. p. 368. 



Sti'ix sinensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xvi. 



Strix orientalis, Shaic, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 257 (e.r Lath.). 



Strix seloputo, Ilorrf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 140; Less. Man. i. p. lOt'. 



