264 BUBONIDJE. 



black bars, the ear-coverts orange in the centre ; facial ruff dark 

 chocolate-brown, many of the feathers spotted with white, those on 

 the loAver part incUuing to orange and the plumes under the chin 

 being white with narrow black bars, in both instances assimilating 

 to the adjacent paits of the body ; chin and a patch on the fore neck 

 white, the plumes on the latter part with a few narrow terminal bars 

 of dark brown ; rest of the under surface white, narrowly barred with 

 dark brown, the whole of the feathers orange at base, this colour 

 showing conspicuously on the chest ; leg- feathers, as weU as under 

 wing- and tail-coverts, white, barred with dark brown, the greater 

 series of under wing-coverts blackish, with light orange-buff bases, 

 thus resembling the iiiuer lining of the wing, which is orange-bufF 

 for the greater part of the inner webs of the feathers, the ends being 

 brown, barred across with lighter brown ; " bill horny black, pale 

 and greyish on lower mandible; cere dingy, a mixture of dirty, 

 pinkish, brownish, and yellowish horny (varies a good deal) ; bare 

 part of toes pale greenish brown, soles yellowish white ; iris brown, 

 light in some specimens, dark in others" {Hume). Total length 21 

 inches, wdng 13-9, tail 8-5, tarsus 2'2, 



Hah. Throughout India east of the Sutledje, and of the Indus 

 below its junction with the former, and west of the Ganges 

 (Hume). 



Rev. H. H. Baber [P.]. 



13. Symium leptogrammicum *. 



Strix leptogrammica, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 525. 



Syrnium leptogrammicum, G)-ay, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 3 ; Strickl. Om. 



' Sijn. p. 193 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Ciccaba leptogrammica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 44 ; Kaup, Tr. Z, S. iv. 



p. 255; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 26; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 21. 

 Bulaca leptogrammica, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 130. 

 Myrtha leptogrammica, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Ulula leptogrammica, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 20, et Eevue Accipitr. 



p. 21. 



Adidt male. Above chestnut -brown, regularly and distinctly 

 banded across with dark brown ; the scapulars externally white or 



* Professor Schlegel recognizes a larger species (of which I have not seen ex- 

 amjsles) representing the present one in Sumatra. The following will be the 

 synonymy if it is really distinct : — 



Syrnium myrtha. 



Symium leptogrammicum, Cass. Cat. Strigidte Philad. Mus. p. 7. 

 Ciccaba myrtha, Bp. Consp. i. p. 44 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 21. 

 Myrtha sumatrana, Bp. Bev. ei Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 641. 

 Syrnium myrtha, Strickl, Orn. Syn. p. 193. 

 Ulula myrtlia, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 19. 

 Syrnium sumatranuni, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Huh. Sumatra. 



