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the spots on the wings, near the emarginations, nearly white. Another (S. polygram- 

 micum) shows more rufous, and the dark-brown tail has seven lighter zigzag cross- 

 bands, which are very clearly bounded, and in the middle pointed like bands. This is a 

 young bird. In the nest-plumage there is rufous on the smaller feathers of the body. 

 Wings and tail very variegated by the distinct black margins of the lighter bands. 

 Dimens. — (-S. zonocircum) : head 68, bill from gape 32, wing 250, tail 153 mm. long. 

 {S. polygrammicum) : ,, 67, ,, ,, 33, ,, 240, ,, 145 ,, 



Under the name of Syrnium squamulatum, Bp. {Strix squamulata et chrysosticta, Licht.), 

 I received two specimens from the Museum at Berlin, which are not different from 

 S, cayennense. The lighter and larger specimen, certainly the female {Strix squamulata), 

 has the lorum white, with black shafts, which reach beyond the bill. Stripe over the 

 eye white ; some feathers of it nearer the front rusty-yellow and black-banded at the 

 base. Feathers of the hinder ear-margin on its anterior side black, with a rusty- 

 yellow zigzag shaft-stripe and a pure white end : the white ends of these feathers 

 make the hinder margin of the ear pure white. All the feathers on the front, head, and 

 neck brownish, with two rufous bauds at the base, and near the end with one or two 

 white or light-rufous spots or bands. The shoulder-coverts with rufous bases and 

 bands, and with one or two pairs of white or lighter rufous spots. The margin-feathers 

 of the shoulder-coverts on the outer web with large white spots, which form a long 

 stripe. On the marbled, variegated smaller feathers of the wing are white, black-bounded 

 spots. The wing-feathers Ught reddish, with from four to six white, black-bounded 

 bands, reddish-coloured in the middle. On the inner side the wing-feathers are 

 blackish, with rusty-yellow or greyish bands. The ends of all the feathers white. 

 The tail on the upper and under side has four white bars. Tarsi whitish, with 

 indistinct fine reddish cross-bands. 



The darker and smaller specimen, which is possibly a male {S. chrysosticta) , has a dark 

 face, and the feathers on the hinder ear-margin reddish-banded and spotted at the ends. 

 All the spots on the head and neck are rufous, on the back greyish. The white bands 

 on the wings are dark grey, and the ground-colour of the under parts is rufous, with 

 the exception of the under tail-coverts, which are white, some of them with a narrow 

 black shaft-stripe and black end. As in yS. squamulata, the first joint of the middle toe 

 is covered with feathers. Tarsi on the outside brownish-spotted. 



Dimens.— Head 63-66, bill from gape 30-33, wing 240-265, tail 143-157 mm. long. 

 A young bird: „ .59, „ ,, 30, „ 240, „ 143 



A young bird from the Berlin Museum, under the name of " Strix dominicensis, Gmel." 

 (suinda, Azara), has a dark-brown head, with from three to five narrow rusty-red cross- 

 lines. A stripe over the eye white. The anterior ear-coverts very dark rusty-red- 

 brown, with lighter shafts and black spots. The feathers of the hinder ear-margin 

 white, rusty-yellow at the base. The back is lighter, because the lighter rufous cross- 



