16. SYRNIUM. 273 



Adult. Above light chocolate, obsoletely varied with dull black- 

 ish and ochraceous cross lines, the crown and hind neck more strongly 

 marked with ochraceous ; outer scapulars largely marked with yel- 

 lowish buff, forming a distinct shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts coloured 

 like the back, but varied with larger and more rufous mottlings, the 

 median series with large oceUated spots of yellowish white on the 

 outer web ; primary-coverts dark brown, with a few obsolete cross 

 markings of dull reddish ; quills brown, lighter at tip and barred 

 across with 2)aler brown, inclining to fulvous on the outer web ; the 

 bai's on the primaries about seven in number, and about six on the 

 secondaries, which are not so fulvous externally, and the innermost 

 of which are coloured like the back ; tail brown, lighter at tip, and 

 crossed with six bands of pale ochraceous ; lores whitish, washed 

 with rufous, the shafts black at tip ; feathers over the eye whitish 

 buff, the feathers of the facial ruff deeper fulvous, rather lighter below 

 the cheeks ; sides of face rufous brown, slightly mottled with black 

 bars, the shafts whitish ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface buffy 

 white, the throat and chest more or less inclining to fulvous brown, 

 the flanks washed with orange-buff, the leg-feathers entirely of the 

 latter colour ; fore neck and breast streaked with rufous brown ; 

 under wing-coverts rich orange-buff'; the greater series ashy brown, 

 barred with fulvous, and thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing. Total length 15'5 inches, culraen 1"3, wing 10-8, tail 7, 

 tarsus 1*9. 



Hah. Brazil. 



20. Syrnium virgatum*. 



Symium virgatum, Cass. Pr. PhUad. Acad. iv. p. 124 ; id. Journ. Ph. 



Acad. ii. p. 51, pi. -3 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 193 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



I. p. 49. 

 Syrnium zonocercum, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. B. M. 1848, p. 103 (desci-. 



tiulld). 

 Strix squamulata, Licht. Mtis. Berol., toide 

 Syrnium squamulatum, Bp. Consp. i. p. 53. 

 Ciccaba cayenneusis (pt.), Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 120, et Tr. Z. S. 



iv. p. 251. 

 Athene squamulata, Licht. Nomencl. p. 7. 

 Ulula virgata, Schl. Mtis. P.-B. Striges, p. 15. 

 Syrnium liueatum, Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 462 ; Salvin, Ibis, 



1874, p. 318. 

 Ciccaba virgata, Scl. ^ Salv. Noinencl. p. 117. 



Adult male. Above sepia-brown, crossed with numerous vermicu- 

 lations of ochraceous buff, rather obsolete on the interscapulary 



* I believe tliis species to be the Strix fasciata of Vieillot (N. Diet. vii. p. 21). 

 !Not being able to entirely satisfy myself on this point, I prefer to retain the 

 well-known name of & virqattan in common use. 



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