16. sTRjiirM. 267 



a. Juv. sk. Fantee (Ussher). Capt. G. E. Shelley [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Denkera (Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Denkera. M. Aubinn [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape-Coast Castle. II. F. Blissett, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Ogow(§ River, Gaboon. MM. Marcbe et De Conipiegne [C.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Aii-ica. 



15. Symium woodfordi. 



Noctua -svoodfordi, Stnith, S.-Afr. Q. Journ. 2nd ser. pt. 1, p. 312. 

 Athene woodfordi, Smith, III. Zool. S. Aft: Aves, pi. 71; dray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 3-4; Strkkl Oni. Si/ii. p. 170. 

 Symium woodfordi, £p. Consp. i. p. 52 ; Gu)~ney, Ibis, 1859, p. 242, 



et 1862, p. 37; Kirk, Ibis, 1804, p. 307; Lmjard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 42; Gray, Hatid-l. B. i. p. 48 ; Heiigl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 



p. 122 ; Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Odafr. p. 108; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 76. 

 Ciccaba woodfordi, Kaiq}, Contr, Orn. 1852, p. 120 ; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 253. 

 Strix woodfoordi. Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 47. 

 Ulula woodfoordti, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Strides, p. 12. 

 Symium umbrinum, Heugl, J. f. O. 1863, p. 12 ; Gruv, Hand-l. B. 

 'i. p. 48. 



Nestling. Covered with down of a dull white colour, the sprouting 

 feathers brown, banded with dingy ochraceous and broadly tipped 

 with whitish buff; the under feathers coloured in the same manner, 

 the breast-feathers especially brown. 



Young. Of a duU tawny colour, many of the feathers barred with 

 fulvous and tipped with white, giving the head a hoary appearance ; 

 wing-coverts brown, slightly vermiculated with lighter brown and 

 ochraceous, and broadly tipped with white ; quills and tail-feathers 

 as in adult, but the bars rather narrower on the latter ; under sur- 

 face of body light ochraceous, inclining to whitish on the beUy, 

 everywhere transversely barred with light brown. 



Full-grown young bird. Above dark chocolate-brown, the hind 

 neck with a few cross lines of ochraceous buff, the dorsal feathers 

 with a few vermiculations of ochraceous, not disturbing, however, 

 the general brown appearance of the upper surface ; head darker 

 brown than the back, scantily marked with a tiny white streak in 

 the centre of the feather, these markings larger and more star- 

 shaped on the hind neck and wig, and present, though in a smaller 

 degree, on most of the dorsal feathers ; scapulars externally pale 

 orange-buff", shading into white subterminally, and forming a distinct 

 longitudinal shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts chocolate-brown, a httle 

 darker than the back, with a few nearly obsolete cross markings of 

 fulvous, here and there relieved with a narrow black line, the me- 

 dian and greater series being the palest of all, on these alone the 

 star-shaped median spot being apparent as on the back, the greater 

 coverts having a distinct spot of ochraceous white on the outer web ; 

 primary-coverts almost entirely brown, with obsolete bars of lighter 

 brcvm near the tip ; quills brown, with a terminal edging of fulvous 



