16. STRNIUM. 



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row brown cross bars ; under wing-coverts fulvous, thickly barred 

 across with brown, the outermost more broadly barred, the greater 

 series fulvous at base, dark brown at tip, thus resembling the inner 

 lining of the wing, which is dark brown, barred on the inner web 

 with pale ochi-aceous, the secondaries more distinctly barred with 

 the latter colour ; bill, cere, and feet light yellow ; iris varying 

 from light brown to yellow. Total length 15-5 inches, wing 9-5, 

 tail 6-3, tarsus 1-95. 



Foot of Syrnium woodfordi, to show extent of occasional feathering*. 

 Hah. Southern and North-eastern Africa. 



16. Syrnium hylopMlum. 



Strix hylophilum, Temni. PI. Col. ii. pi. 373. 



Svmium livlophilum, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 39 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 52 ; 

 ' Strickl. dm. St/n. p. 192; Pelz. Om. Bras. pp. 9, 400; Gray, 



Harul-l. i. p. 43 ; Scl. S^ Salv. Nomencl. p. IIG. 

 Ciccaba hylophila, iTaa/;), Cotdr. Om. 1852, p. 120; id. Tr. Z. S iv 



p. 253. 

 SjTuium albitarse, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 103 {descr. ntdld) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 52 ; Scl. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 263, pi. Lt. {descr. prin- 



ceps) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Ulula hyloph'ila, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 47 ; Schl. Mtts. P.-B. 



Striges, p. 13. 

 ^lacabra hylopliila, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Giccaba albitarse, Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. p. 117. 



Adult. Above blackish brown, strongly varied with orange-tawny, 

 especially on the wig and hind neck, where the bases to the fea- 

 thers are orange and only the tips black ; the scapulars irregularly 



* The bird whose foot is figured is an exceptional specimen, the toes in 

 every other specimen examined being quite bare. 



