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bands are broader. The margins of the shoulder-coverts rusty-yellow on the outer 

 webs, black-spotted and margined. The smaller feather of the wings without white 

 spots, and rusty-yellow with brown, black-margined cross-bands. Inner side of the 

 wing-feathers with from six to nine rusty-yellow bands. Tail with nine hghter reddish 

 bars on a blackish ground. The greater number of bars is a sign of youth. 



.5. Syrnium hylophilum, G. R. Gray. 



Strix hylophila, Temm. Col. 373. 



Syrnium albotarse, G. R. Gray. 



Ulula fasciata, Des Murs, PL Peint. 37. 



Diagn. — Size of Syrnium aluco. Breast and belly with dark cross-bands, one or two 

 on each feather. 



Descr. — Rufous, with dark-brown zigzag cross-bands. Margin of the shoulder- 

 coverts with a rusty-yellow stripe. Chin, belly, and sides pure white, banded with 

 black and rufous. Tail with six cross-bands, in the middle nebulous, margined with 

 lighter rufous and blackish ; the end of the tail whitish. Tarsi rufous, darker-banded. 

 Young birds show white spots on the wings and concentric rings on the face. 



Dimens. — Head 70, wing 250, tail 150 mm. long. 



The older bird is G. R. Gray's Syrnium albotarse, with whitish lorum and eye-stripe. 

 No concentric rings on the face. The rusty-yellow bands on the wings and tail are 

 without spots. The coverts of the ten hand-wings wholly black, without spots. Tar- 

 sus white. 



A young bird in the British Museum, with nebulous spotted bands on the wings and 

 tail, has concentric rings on the face, and rusty-red and dark cross-banded tarsi. 



6. Syrnium woodfordi, Cassin. 



Athene woodfordii, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. 71. 



Diagn. — The lower parts with four line-like cross-bands on each feather. Between 

 the last cross-bands a white band with the margin rufous. 



Descr. — Bill yellow. Front greyish-white. Around the eyes darker ; face banded. 

 Chin-feathers white, with from five to six dark-brown cross-bands. The smaller feathers 

 of the lower parts dark brown, with rusty-yellow dark-margined cross-bands, and rhom- 

 boid black-margined spots at the end of each feather. Margin of the shoulder-coverts 

 rusty-yellow, with white spots, and three bands on the exterior web of each feather. 

 Margins of the wing black-brown, with from four to six yellowish-grey cross-bands with 

 light ends. The small feathers on the arm-wings have white margins. Tail blackish, 

 with seven rusty-grey cross-bands, more regular and distinct at the sides. The rusty- 

 yellow tarsi dark-spotted. 



Hab. S. Africa. 



