Mr. F. E. Beddaid on Photodilus badius. 



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The interorbital septum is not flattened down to a thin 

 plate, which may even be here and there deficient ; it is, on 

 the contrary, of some thickness, though this is not so marked 

 as in Strix. Asio and Syrnium are not, however, very far 

 removed from Photodilus in this particular, though they are 

 rather on the Bubonine than the Strigine side. The inter- 

 orbital septum of Photodilus is, in fact, intermediate in its 

 characters between that of Strix and that of Syrnium. 



Fur. 1. 



Photodilus badius : base of skull. Nat. size. 



The lateral ethmoid processes, although not so swollen as 

 in Strix, are not nearly so flattened as they are in Bubo, where 

 they are thin plates hardly thicker than a piece of paper. 



On the other hand, the general proportions of the skull are 

 decidedly more like those of Bubo than of Strix. 



The measurements are, length 63 millim., breadth 44 

 millim. 



The palatines, though not so straight as in Strix, are less 

 bowed than in Bubo, and there is not that sharply marked 



