62 SYRNIINE, 
also Colonel Tickell. Neither Colonel Swinhoe or myself met 
with it there. 
Genus, Syrnium, Savigny. 
The characters are the same as those of the sub-family. 
Syrnium indranee, Sykes. 
63.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 121; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 875; Bulaca indranee, Sykes; 
Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 347. 
THE Brown Woop OwL. 
Length, 19 to 21; wing, 13 to 14; tail, 8 to 9; tarsus, 2°4. 
Toes feathered for three-quarters of their length, and with strong 
scutze beyond; the inner claw is the targest, the outer one 
about equal to the hind-claw; the wings reach nearly to the 
end of the tail. 
Above, hair-brown, darkest on the head and neck, the greater- 
coverts, scapulars, and tertiaries banded with white, the outer 
scapulars being almost white with brown bars; rump and 
upper tail-coverts also faintly barred with fulvous; quills brown, 
barred with pale fulvous on both webs and with narrow whitish 
bars and a white tip; disc, black round the eye, with a pale 
whitish upper edge or supercilium, rufous externally; ruff 
brown with some white markings; throat below the ruff white ; 
body beneath pale rufous-white, narrowly and closely barred with 
brown ; quills and tail beneath dusky-brown, with white bars ; 
bill pale greenish ; irides deep brown ; claws horny-reddish. 
The Brown Wood Owl appears to be very uncommon, and is 
confined to the Western Ghats and forests in the vicinity. It 
has been procured at Ratnagiri and at Mahableshwar. Nothing 
appears to be known in regard to its nidification; in fact, 
Mr. Hume and others seem somewhat to doubt the distinctness 
of this and S. xewarense, but as Jerdon points out the present is 
a considerably smaller bird. 
Syrnium occellatum, Less. 
65.—S. sinense, Lath.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 128; 
Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 208 ; Deccan, Stray 
Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 376; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 353. 
THE MoTTLeED Woop OWL. 
Length, 179 to 192; expanse, 45 to 50°5; wing, 13 to 15; 
tail, 7 to 8°5; tarsus, 2 to 2°4; bill from gape, 1°6 to 1°7. 
Bill black, paler, and greyish on lower mandible; eyelids 
orange; irides brown, deep in some, lighter in others; claws 
sharp, slightly curved, middle claw dilated on inner edge. 
General plumage: above, rich tawny-yellow, the feathers of the 
head and nape spotted with black and white, each plume having a 
blackish tip, and crossed by an interrupted white band ; feathers of 
