692 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Genus STRIX Linn. 



Type. 



Strix, Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. X. I. p. 92 (1758) S. ahico. 



Syrnium, Savign. Descr. Egypte, p. 298 (1809); Sharpe, Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 244 (1875); Sharpe, Hand-list Eds. 



i. p. 293 (1899) S. aluco. 



Ulnla, Cuvier, Regn. Anim. i. p. 329 (181 7) 5. Jiralense. 



Geographical Range. — The whole world except Madagascar, the Austro- 

 Malayan subregion, Australia and Oceania. 



Strix rufipes King. 



Strix nifipes, King, Zool. Journ. III. p. 426 (1827: Port Famine). 



Ulula rufipes, Darw. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 34 (184 1 : Tierra del Fuego); 

 Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 251 (1847); Phil. & Landb. 

 Cat. Av. Chil. p. 7 (1868). 



Uluia fasciata, Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 252 (1847); id. 

 Iconogr. Orn. pi. xxxvii. 



Syrnimn ritfipes, Gray, Hand-list B. I. p. 48, No. 508 (1869); Scl. & Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 116 (1873: Patagonia); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. II. p. 261 (1876: Port Famine and Straits of Magellan); Burm. 

 An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 242 (1888: Straits of 

 Magellan), part XI. p. 316 (1890: Valley of Deseado); Oust. Miss. 

 Scient. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 254, 324 (1891); James, New List 

 Chil. B. p. 6 (1892); Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 697 (1898: 

 Sene Almirantazgo, Fuegia, Jan.); Sharpe, Hand-list B. I. p. 294 

 (1899); Martens, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. p. 6 (1900: Patagonia: 

 Straits of Magellan : Fuegia). 



General description. 



Size. — Adult male, 7881, P. U. O. C. Rio Chico, Cordillera, Patagonia, 

 25 February, 1897. J. B. Hatcher. 



Total length, about 15.50 inches. 



Wing, 10.00 inches. 



Tail, 6.00 inches. 



The female does not differ in color from the male, but is larger ; 7882, 

 adult female (presumably mate of male cited), from same locality, collected 

 the same day, length about 16.90; wing 11.40; tail 7.25. 



