16. SYKNIUM. 281 



25. Syrnium newarense. 



Bulaca newarensis, Hodys. Asiut. Research, xix. p. 1G8 ; Swinh. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 344 ; Hume, RoKgh Notes, ii. p. 348; id. Nests Sf 



Eggs Ind. B. p. GO. 

 Mesidus newarense, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. x. p. 28. 

 Svrniuiu newarense. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 39, pi. 14 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



"p. V22 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Syrnium indranee {nvc Syhes), Gray, Cat. Maimn. 8fC. Nepal Hodgs. 



p. 52 ; Bj}. Consp. i. p. 51 ; Utricld. Orn. Syn. p. 191 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Ulula indrani, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Striges, p. 19. 

 Bubo caligatus, Stcinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 218, et 1864, p. 429. 

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



Adult. Above uniform chocolate-brown, a little darker and blacker 

 on the head, the scapulars externally white, barred with chocolate- 

 brown, these bars more or less iuclining to rufous ; wing-coverts 

 chocolate-brown Hke the back, the least series with a few fiilvesccnt 

 bars, the median series greyish at tip and barred across with fulvous, 

 more or less inclined to white on the outer web, the bars slightly 

 vermiculated with brown, the greater coverts more distinctly baried 

 and tipped with white ; primaiy-coverts chocolate-brown, barred 

 with lighter brown ; quills brown, barred with paler brown, more 

 numerously on the secondaries, which are distinctly tipped with 

 white, the bars ou the innermost secondaries also iuclining to white 

 on the inner web ; upper tail-coverts rather paler thau the back, and 

 barred across with white ; tail-feathers deep chocolate-brown, barred 

 across with ten narrow bands of hghter brown, not conterminous 

 on the centre feathers excepting towards the tips, where they are 

 regular, the outer feathers with as many as twelve bands on the 

 outer web, the inner one being more broadly banded, the bars on 

 this latter web inclining to white ; feathers over the eye whitish, the 

 plumes siu-rounding the latter black ; loral feathers dusky, whitish 

 at base but obscured by blackish shaft-streaks ; rest of facial aspect 

 dusky white, more or less washed with brown and narrowly barred 

 with the same in circular lines ; feathers of facial ruff glossy choco- 

 late-brown, more marked with white as they descend to the throat, 

 many of the plumes on the latter part white tipped with brown ; 

 feathers of the side of the neck white, narrowly barred with brown ; 

 chin dark browTi ; on the fore neck a cresceutic patch of white ; 

 rest of under surface duU white, everywhere narrowly banded with 

 chocolate-brown, the leg-feathers similarly but more minutely bai-red, 

 those on the imder tail-coverts browner and broader than on the 

 breast-feathers ; under wing-coverts similar to the breast, with a 

 white spot on the edge of the wing, the greater series blackish, 

 baiTcd with yellowish white near the base, thus resembling the 

 inner Lining of the wing, which is blackish, barred with fulvous 

 towards the tips of the feathers, these bars much broader and clearer 

 yellowish on the secondaries : " bare joints of toes pale plumbeous, 

 the claws dusky lead-colour ; bill greenish horny white, bluish towards 

 base ; cere, which is ill-defined, plumbeous : bare eyelids and cyeshelf 



