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with fine, very small lighter spots. On the inner webs seven to eight small white 

 bands not reaching to the shafts. The under parts (like a Scops) are white, with the 

 feathers brownish in the middle, and blackish shaft-spots and cross-bands. 



The other, more rufous, specimen has the front purer white, and the veil without a 

 black margin. Chin and the upper parts of the breast more rufous. This is certainly 

 a younger bird. 



Dimens. — Head 49, from the gape 21, wing 146-153, tail 80-81, tarsus 38, middle 

 toe without nail 21 mm. long. 



I have no doubt that the naked tarsus is natural. A very young bird out of the 

 nest, from St. Domingo, has the same character, and has the greater part of the tarsi 

 scaled. 



3. Syrnium albogulare, Cassin. 



Scops albipunctatus, G. R. Gray. 

 Syrnium albogulare, Cass. 

 macabrum, Bp. 



Diagn. — Tail 128 mm. long, with fourteen regular bands on the under side. 



Bescr.—Uedid, neck, upper part of breast, and back dark brown, spotted with rusty- 

 yellow and whitish. A stripe over the eyes: chin with white ground-colour: the 

 sides and thigh-feathers are rusty-yellow, the first with dark-brown shaft-stripes, tine 

 cross-lines, and white spots. The exterior webs of the wings with from seven or eight 

 to eleven rusty-yellow spots. The interior part of the wing rusty-yellow, spotted with 

 black ; but the greater part is uniform blackish, and the dark cross-bands are not very 

 distinct. The tail on the superior part is of a dark rusty-yellow, finely spotted with 

 eleven zigzag rusty-yellow spot-bands. 



Dimens.— Wings 193 mm. or 7", tail 128 mm. or 4" 7'". 



Hab. New Grenada. 



4. Syrnium cayennense, Kp. 



Strix cayenennsis, Gmel. (juv.). 



fasciata, Vieill. Enc. p. 1288. 



Syrnium sonocircum et polygrammicum, G. R. Gray. 



Strix suinda, Vieill. (juv.). 



squamulata, Licht. 



Diagn.— The lower parts rufous with dark-brown shaft-spots. Wings 240-265, 

 tail 143-157 ram. long. 



Descr. — The upper parts dark brown with numerous rufous zigzag stripes. Along 

 the shoulder-coverts a rufous stripe. The wing-feathers with from four to nine rusty- 

 yellow, black-margined, sometimes dark-pointed cross-spots. A very dark-coloured bird 

 {S. zonocircum) with black tail, which has four white, grey-pointed cross-bands, shows 



