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1161. Syrnium ocellatum. The Mottled Wood-Oivl. 



Syrnium ocellatum, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 289 ; Blanford, 



J.A.S. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 167 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 263 ; 



Butler, S. F. v, p. 208 ; vii, p. 179; ix, p. 376 ; Davidson Sr Wend. 



S. F. vii, p. 75 ; Ball, ib. p. 200 ; Hume, Cat. uo. 65 ; Vidal, 



S. F. ix, p. 35 ; Reid, S'. F. x, p. 14 ; mi7ne, ibid. p. 343 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 62; id. Journ. Bom. N. II. Soe. iii, p. 220; 



Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 195 : Oates in Hume's 



N. 8,- F. 2nd ed. iii, p. 115. 

 Bulaca sinensis, apud Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. S. x, p. 88 ; nee Lath. 

 Syrnium sinense, apud Blijth, J. A. S. B. xi,p. 162 ; id. Cat. p. 40 ; 



Horsf. Si- M. Cat. i, p.' 82 ; Jerdon, B. I. \, p. 123 ; iii, p. 870 : 



McMaster, J. A. 8. B. xl, pt. 2, p. 207. 

 Bulaca ocellata, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 29; 1866, p. 253; King, 



J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 213 ; Hiune, Botif/k Notes, p. 353 ; id. 



N. ^- F. p. 61 ; A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 80 ; Adam, 8. F. 



i, p. 369 ; Fairba7ik, S. F. iv, p. 253. 



Fig. 74. — Head of 8. ocellatum, \. 



Coloration. Loral feathers mixed black and white, a vertical 

 ferruginous stripe behind the eye, remainder of facial disk greyish 

 white, barred with dusky and white-shafted ; forehead and super- 

 cilia white with black bars ; ruff chocolate-brown, narrow and 

 inconspicuous ; feathers of upper parts ferruginous tawny except 

 at the ends, those of the crown, nape, and sides of neck tipped 

 black, spotted or barred with white, those of the rest of the upper 

 surface finely mottled black and white, with broader wavy black 

 bars and shaft-stripes ; terminal portion of quills dark brown, 

 with numerous broad pale clouded and mottled cross-bands and 

 mottled tips, basal portion buff, sometimes with dark cross-bars ; 

 upper sm'face of outer web much mottled ; middle tail-feathers 

 mottled and with irregular cross-bands, buff towards the base, 

 becoming dark near the end ; outer tail-feathers the same near the 

 tip and on the outer web, but buff with dark bands inside 

 towards the base ; point of chin greyish white, the feathers very 

 bristly, followed by dark brown buff feathers with white edges and 

 chestnut at the base ; middle of throat white ; lower parts from 



