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STRtGID^. 



1. STRIX*. 



Type. 



Strix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 133 (1766) S. llammea. 



Aluco, Fleming, Phil. Zool. ii. p. 236 (1828) S. flammea. 



Hybris, Nitzsch, Pteryl. p. 100 (1840) S. flammea. 



Stridula, Seli/s-Lo/if/ch. Faun. Bek/e, p. 60 (1842) S. flammea. 



Eustrinx, JVebb Sr Berth. Orn. Canar. p. 8 (1844) S. flammea. 



Megastrix, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 760 S. tenebricosa. 



Glaux, Bli/lh, J. A. S. B. xix. p. 613 (1850). . . . S. Candida. 



Scelostrix, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 119 .... S. Candida. 



Dactylostrix, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 119 . . S. novcie bollandise. 



Glyphidiura, Reich. Syst. Nat. pi. xcii. fig. 2 . , S. capensis. 

 Cf. Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 324. 



Middle toe of Strix Jlammea, to show the serration on the middle claw. 



Range. The entire globe, excepting the extreme north of both 

 hemispheres, New Zealand f, and certain islands of the Malayan 

 subregions and Oceania. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper surface always vermiculated. 



a'. General colour below white or orange-buff", 

 spotted or nan-owly vermiculated with 



* I am unacquainted personally with tlie foUowing species : — 

 1. Strix thomensis. 



Strix thomensis, Hartl. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1852, p. 2 ; Mull. Beitr. Orn. 



Afr. pi. 15 ; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 21 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 52 ; Pele. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 2.3. 

 Strix sancti-thomse, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 118, et Tr. Z. 8. iv. p. 247. 



Above blackish grey, marked with minute spots of paler grey and white spots 

 margined with black ; below bright and intense orange-rufous, with rounded 

 blackish spots ; under tail-coverts and thighs imspotted ; tail-feathers paler 

 ferruginous, obscurely varied, witli three broad dusky blackish bands, the tips of 

 all more broadly dusky, marked with a minute irregular spot of white before the 

 tip itself ; quiUs marked in the same manner ; axillaries buif ; bill brown ; claws 

 blackish. Total length 14f ", wing 8" 4'", tail 4" 3"' tarsus 2" 2^'". 



Hab. Island of St. Thomas, W. Africa. 



t Strur haasti, Buller, is Sceloglaux albifacies. 



