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Dimens. — Bill from the front 49, from the gape 45, wing 340, tail 180 mm. long. 

 Hub. Java. 



9. Syrnium leptogrammicum, Cass. 



Strix leptogrammica, Temm. Col. 525. 



Diagn. — Breast rusty-red, without bands. Head without spots or bands. Cheeks 

 and lores whitish ; a black-brown stripe from the front round the ear-coverts. 



Descr. — Head, neck, and breast near the fwcula lighter or darker rufous. Wings and 

 tail rufous or dark brown, with numerous dark-brown cross-bands. The lower parts 

 light rusty-yellowish white with blackish cross-bands. Tarsi banded. Length 14 inches. 

 Description taken from a younger bird, after Temminck. 



In the British Museum there is a specimen of an old bird which shows some differ- 

 ences. The bristle-feathers of the lorum are black, the cheeks are rufous, and the head, 

 except a stripe over the eye, is black, bounded with a light rufous neck-collar. Shoulder- 

 coverts on the margin white, black-striped. Tail with ten narrow rufous bands and 

 end. Tarsi only with traces of bands. 



Dimens. — Head 70, bill from the gape 33, wing 285, tail 156, tarsus 47 mm. long. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Subgenus b. Syrnium, Sav. 



Diagn. — Bill feeble and yellow. Ear-orifices of middling size and asymmetrical, with 

 large opercula. Toes thickly feathered. First wing-feather all round, and the second 

 to the fifth on the emargination dentellated. 



Between the size of Syrnium aluco and Bubo maximus. 



Found in every part of the world except New Holland. 



10. Syrnium nivicolum, Hodgs. 



Journ. As. S. B. xiv. p. 185. 

 Icon. ined. Accipitr. 96. 



Diagii.— Bead 74, wing 286, tail 185, bill 23 mm. long. 



Descr. — Larger than Strix aluco, and the colour more variegated and brilliant. The 

 feathers of the belly and sides rusty-yellow, with white spots and bands and dark end- 

 margins. The six bands of the wing have blackish edgings : the tail is rather long, and 

 has nine distinct marbled cross-bands. 



Hab. N. India. 



11. Syrnium aluco, Cuv. 



Strix aluco et stridula, Linn. Naum. t. 46, 47; Enl. 441, 437; Gould, Birds of Eur. pi. 47. 



Syrnium ululans, Sav. 



Strix sylvestris, alba, noctua, et rufa, Scop. 



sylvatica, Shaw. 



Diagn. — Head 70, tail 170 mm. long. 



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