272 BTTBONID^. 



coverts coloured and barred in the same manner as the back, but 

 the browni bars rather broader ; primary-coverts dark brown, barred 

 with dull ochraceous brown ; quills dark brown, barred with very- 

 pale ochraceous brown, lighter on the outer web, where about nine 

 can be counted on the primaries and seven on the secondaries, not 

 including the light tip ; tail brown, tipped with pale brown, crossed 

 with seven bands of the same colour, the bars decidedly ochraceous 

 near the base ; loral feathers and those on fore part of forehead con- 

 spicuously white ; lores white at base, black at tip ; ear-coverts 

 rufous, fringed with black, the shafts to the feathers white ; facial 

 ruff orange-buff, slightly barred with brown, the lower part of the 

 ruff yellowish white below the ear-coverts, forming a conspicuous 

 crescentic mark ; entire under surface of body yellowish ochre, 

 washed with deeper ochre on the sides of the upper breast and 

 mottled with chocolate-brown in the form of irregular bars on the 

 chest, and of longitudinal streaks on the flanks and abdomen, which 

 are also sparsely mottled with zigzag brown markings ; the under tail- 

 coverts with scarcely any remains of bars ; leg-feathers pale ochra- 

 ceous buff'; under wing-coverts rich ochraceous, the greater series 

 ashy brown, barred with yellowish white near the base, and thus 

 resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is also ashy brown, 

 banded with lighter brown, changing to yellowish white near the 

 base. Total length 17 inches, culmen r6, wing 10-8, tail 6-7, 

 tarsus 1-85. {Brazil.) 



Obs. Mr. Wallace collected a specimen at Para, which, with some 

 hesitation, I refer to this species. Unlike the one described, it has 

 a black tail with ohIy five bars (not counting the white terminal one), 

 and the streaks on the belly are brown, without the lateral mottlings 

 apparent on the other specimen. The barred character of the upper 

 surface and the facial features, however, being the same in both, I 

 cannot but believe the other differences to be the result of age. 



Hah. Brazil. 



a. Ad. St. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Para, May 1849. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



19. SyrnlTjjn sninda. 



Suinda, Azara, Apimt. ii. p. 120 ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 3. 



Strix suinda, Vicill. N. Diet. vii. p. 34 {ex Azara). 



Noctua dominicensis, Tsch. Arch. Nat. 1844, p. 262 ; id. F. P. p. 115. 



Syrnium suinda, Bp. Consp. i. p. 62 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 



Macabra suinda, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541. 



Ulula cayennensis (pt.), Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 4*. 



Ciccaba suinda, Scl. ^ Sale. Nomencl. p. 117. 



* The name of cayennensis is founded on a plate of Bnffon's, which I find it 

 impossible to recognize. The synonymy is as follows : — 



Chat-hiiant de Cayenne, Buff. PL Ejil. 442. 



Strix cayennensis, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 296 ; Sfrickl. Orn. Syn. p. 183. 



Nootua cayennensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xili. pt. 2, p. 67. 



Athene cayennensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35. 



Syrnium cayennense, Bp. Consp. i. 52. 



Ciccaba cayennense, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 120. 



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