16. sTExruii. 283 



Mr. Hume has noticed the ochraceous disk in Ceylonese birds, and 

 proposes the name of ochrorjenys* for the island bird. The great 

 probability is that examples from Ceylon and the peninsula of India 

 ■vnJI be found to be of the same species, which will be the true 

 Sj/rnium indranee (Sykes). Lord Walden has kindly lent me a 

 Malaccan specimen from his collection, obtained by the late Dr. 

 Maingay ; and this is not to be separated trom Dr. Jerdon's skin, 

 like which it has the ochraceous disk. 



Hah. Peninsula of India, Ceylon, Malayan peninsula. 



a. Ad. sk. Southern India ? (Jerdon). J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



27. SyrniTiiii harrisi. 



Nyctale harrisi, Cass. Pr. Pldlad. Acad. iv. p. 157 ; id. Tr. Phil. 



Acad. ii. p. 53, pi. o ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 30 a ; Strickl. 



Or)i. Si/n. p. 178; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 25; Eid(/ti\ N. A. 



Birds, iii. p. 40. 

 Ciccaba gisella, Bp. Consp. i. p. 44. 

 GiseUa lathami, £p. Rev. et Mag. de. Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Nyctalatinus t albipunctatus, " Kaup," Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1855, 



'p. G53. 

 GiseUa haridsi, Bp. C. R. 1855, p. 653. 

 Ulula han-isii, SM. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 9, 

 Syrnium liarrisii. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 50. 

 Nyctahtinus harrisi, Scl. 4'- Salv. Xomencl. Ai\ p. 116. 



Adult. Upper surface of a dull chocolate-brown, deeper on the 

 head ; a very broad frontal patch and an eyebrow bufly white ; on 

 the nape a double spot of butty white, succeeded on the hind neck 

 by an indistinct collar of yellowish buff ; scapulars also inclining to 

 the latter colour on the outer web, and shading off into white at 

 the tips, the longer ones spotted with buff on the outer web, the 

 white spot near the tip being very distinct ; wing-coverts chocolate- 

 brown, notched with white near the edge of the wing and near the 

 tip of the outer web of the greater series ; quills deep brown, spotted 

 on the outer and broadly notched on the inner web with white; 

 tail deep brown, spotted with white at the tip, and crossed with 

 three other rows of white spots ; sides of face yellowish buff, the 

 ear-coverts broadly tipped with chocolate-brown, of which colour 

 there is also a small tuft : ruff composed of yellowish buff 

 plumes, narrowl}' tipped with brown, especially broad on the long 

 gular feathers ; rest of under surface of body, including the leg- 

 feathers, deep yellowish buff', slightly inclining to tawny on the 

 centre of the body ; under wing-coverts inclining to tawny buff, the 

 lower series broadly tipped with dark brown, and resembling the 



* On the change of phimage in the Ceylonese bird, Mr. Vincent Legge's 

 excellent article should be studied (' Stray Feathers,' 1874, pp. 342-.348). 



t Both Prince Bonaparte and Dr. Sclater refer to this name as being pro- 

 posed by Kaup ; the year is given as 18.54 in Mr. G. K. Gray's ' Hand-list ;' and 

 the generic name adopted by the authors of the ' Nomenclator." Yet I have 

 Qever been able to ascertain the work in which it has been published ; and the 

 specific name of alhipunctafuiu was apphed by Kaup to Syrnium alhogttlarc 

 (Cass.). 



