692 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Genus STRIX Linn. 



Type. 



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



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



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



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



Ulula, Cuvier, Regn. Anim. i. p. 329 (1817) S. uralense. 



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

 Malayan subregion, Australia and Oceania. 



STRIX RUFIPES King. 



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



Ulula ruffles, Darw. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 34 (1841 : Tierra del Fuego); 

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

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



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

 Iconogr. Orn. pi. xxxvii. 



Syrnium rufipes, 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. 



