254 DR. J. J. KAUP'S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGID^. 



7. Syrnium sinense, G. R. Gray. 



Stria; sinensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 53. 



orientalis, Shaw; Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. t. 21. 



Diagn. — Lower parts rufous, with large white spots. Each feather with two fine 

 narrow black cross-bands. Head, neck, and back whitish, variegated on a rufous 

 ground-colour. 



Descr. — Larger than Otus vulgaris. Lorum-feathers white with black ends. Plumage 

 above the eye white, black-banded. Face rusty-brown, each feather with a blackish 

 band and a broad white margin, which form concentric rings. Chin white. Feathers 

 on the hinder margins of the ear black, the last with rufous. Head-feathers burning 

 rusty-red, with black points and with a broad black band. Shoulder-coverts and wing 

 at the base rusty-red, at the top black, with ash-grey zigzag drawing. The exterior 

 margins of the shoulder-coverts light rusty-red, with large white spots and narrow 

 black cross-bands. The arm-wings with seven dark-brown bands, and with lighter 

 whitish-bounded bands, which are pointed with dark brown. The wings on the exterior 

 webs rusty-yellow, from the beginning of the emarginations blackish-ocellated and 

 pointed, with from six to eight blackish bands. On the interior part of the wings the 

 coverts are rusty-yellow and whitish, with fine black bands and arrow-spots ; near the 

 base of the wing-feathers a large spot of rusty-yellow. Base of the tail reddish-brown, 

 the top black, with seven lighter, pointed, black-bounded cross-bands. On the under 

 side the tail is rusty-yellow, with seven line-like cross-bands. The margins are grey, 

 nebulous, and show three broader bands. Tarsi whitish, blackish-banded. 



Dmens.— Head 77-80, wing 327-330, tail 190 mm. long. 



8. Syrnium seloputo. 



Strix seloputo, Horsf. 



pagodarum, Temm. Col. 330. 



Diagn. — Cheeks, lorum, and front burning rusty-red. 



Descr. — A handsome Owl with very variegated plumage, of the size of Syrnium 

 nebulosum. On the superior parts brownish, intermixed with rusty-yellow and white, 

 and with black-bounded cross-bands. Margins of the shoulder-coverts white, with five 

 narrow black cross-bands across the two webs of each feather. The small feathers of 

 the wing have white spots, are black-bounded, and have cross-bands on the outer webs. 

 On the outer webs of the wing-feathers from five to seven lighter cross-bands, which 

 are white from the beginning of the emarginations, black-bounded. The lower parts 

 white, intermixed with rusty-yellow down. Each feather with from three to four 

 pretty large black cross-bands. Tail brown, with single white spots, forming on the 

 exterior feathers eight lighter cross-bands ; the under side with twelve whitish bands, 

 near the base blackish-bounded. Tarsi dirty-white, blackish-banded. 



