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in forest. I find two more in the Hume collection — one from 

 Peshdwar, the other from Murdan, close to Peskiwar. It was 

 probably this bird that was seen in Afghanistan by Wardlaw 

 Eamsay (Ibis, 1880, p. 48) and taken for S. nivicola. Nothing 

 is known of the habits. 



1160. Syrnium indrani. The Brown Wood-Owl. 



Strix indi-anee, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 82. 



Ulula uewarenis, Hodgson, As. Res. xix, p. 168 (1836). 



Bulaca newarensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. £. vi, p. 372 ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1866, p. 252 ; Hume, Roxujh Notes, p. 348 ; id. N. ^ E. p. 60 : 



Blanford, S. F. v, p. 483. 

 Bulaca monticola, Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. S. xiii, p. 167 (1844). 

 Syi-nium newarense, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 39, pi. 14 ; Jerdon, B. I. 



i, p. 122 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 16 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 



1871, p. 344 ; Sharj^e, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 281 ; Hume, Cat. no. 64 ; 



Scidly, 8. F. viii, p. 229 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, pp. 434, 471 ; 



Hmne, S. F. xi, p. 19; Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. iii, 



p. 116. 

 Bulaca indranee, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 463; Hume, Rough 



Notes, p. 347. 

 Syrnium indrani, Blyth, Cat. i, p. 40 ; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 83 ; Jerdon, 



B. I. i, p. 121 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 429 ; Legge, S. F. ii, p. 342 ; 



Butler, S. F. iii, p. 439 ; ix, p. 375 ; Blyth, Birds Burin, p. 67 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 282 ; Fairbank, S. F. iv, p. 253 ; Hume 



^ I)av. S. F. vi, p. 27 ; Hume, Cat. no. 63 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 35 ; 



Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 155, pi. v ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 342 ; Taylor, 



ibid. p. 4-55 ; Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 407 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, 



p. 477 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 62. 

 Syrnium ochrogenys, Hume, S. F. i, p. 431 (1873). 

 Syrnium hodgsoni, Scully, S. F. viii, p. 231 (1879). 



The Brown Wood-Owl, The Nepal Brown Wood- Ozol, Jerdon; Bulaka, 

 Nepal ; Mik-dab-bru, Lepcha ; Ulama, Cing. 



Coloration. Bristly loral feathers mixed black and white; 

 feathers around orbits black or blackish brown, passing into 

 whitish, whity brown, brownish buff, or even orange-buff, more or 

 less barred with dusky, on the facial disk, a white or whitish super- 

 ciliary band continuous across the forehead ; ruff proper and chin 

 chocolate-brown, upper parts the same ; crown and nape often 

 much darker than the back. Scapulars and wing-coverts more or 

 less barred paler, some of the outer scapulars white with narrow 

 brown bars ; rump and upper tail-coverts also barred with white 

 or whitish in , some birds, and the back barred paler in young 

 individuals ; quills with pale cross-bars, not always corresponding 

 on the two webs, much closer together on the secondaries ; tail- 

 feathers brown, with narrow pale brown or white bars and white 

 tips ; throat pure white ; remainder of lower parts, except chin, 

 white or fulvous, closely barred with dark brown, most closely on 

 the legs and toes ; the breast in some old birds (chiefly Hima- 

 layan) nearly or quite uniformly brown. 



Young birds have broad whitish edges to the feathers, especially 



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