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14. Syrnium uralense, Brehm. 



Strix uralensis,VeL\l.; Naum. 42. 1; Gould, 44. 

 Ptynx uralensis, Blyth. 



Scotiaptex , Sw. 



Strix liturata, Retz. 

 Ulula liturata, Cuv. 

 Strix macroura, Natt. 



macrocephala, Meisn. 



Syrnium macrocephalon, Brehm. 

 Lepech. Voy. t. 3. 



Diagn. — Face grey or whitish, without concentric rings. Margin of the shoulder- 

 coverts with large white spots. Size of a little specimen of Bubo maximus, or 26 inches 

 long. 



Descr. — The margins of the eyes yellow. General colour white, the face with dark 

 feather-shafts. The superior parts white, with blackish shaft-spots. The hinder 

 margin-feathers of the ears brown, whitish-spotted. Chin with black shaft-spots. 

 The long tail with five broad, irregular, white cross-bands. 



Hab. North-eastern part of Europe and Siberia. 



Subgenus c. Bulaca, Hodgs. 

 Diagn. — Ear-orifice not larger than the diameter of the eye, with small operculum. 

 Bill strong, straight, projected, and nearly black. First to the sixth wing-feather 

 emarginated near the middle. Toes feathered. Rather large in size. 



15. Syrnium indranee, G. R. Gray. 



Strix indranee, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, 82. 

 Gray & Mitch. Gen. of Birds, pi. 14. 

 Bulaca newarensis, Hodgs. 



monticola, Jerd. 



Urrua umbrata, Blyth. 



Diagn. — The lower parts white, with numerous black cross-bands. Head, neck, and 

 back uniform dark brown. 



Descr. — Larger than S. aluco. Feathers of the lorum ash-grey, with black shafts. 

 Face blackish-brown, near the ear lighter, with concentric rings. Front to the middle 

 of the eye white, black-banded. The feathers on the hind margin of the ear black, 

 without drawing ; sides of the neck, margin of the shoulder-coverts, and upper tail- 

 coverts banded with dark brown. Head, neck, and back uniform dark brown. The 

 wing-feathers with ten regular dark-brown cross-bands and white margins. The two 

 series of coverts on the arm-wings elegantly banded with rusty-yellow and brown. Tail 

 dark brown, with eleven brownish bands, which near the shaft and on the inner webs 

 of the five exterior are whitish. Eyes reddish-brown. Bill on the back yellowish. 



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