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Dimens. — Head 85, wing 345, tail 227 mm. long. 



Hab. Hindostan ; country of the Mahrattas : rare (Sy fees). 



Subgenus d. Pidsatrix. 

 Diagn. — Bill strong, high, curved from the base, with sharpened back. Ear without 

 operculum, and not so large as the diameter of the eye. First wing-feather to the 

 sixth emarginated rather near the base. Toes feathered down to the scales of the nails. 



16. Syrnium torquatum, Kp. 



Strix torquata tt personata, Daud., Le Vaill. 42, 44 (juv.). 



perspicillata, Lath. (tab. 6. in Bechst. Uebersetzung.) 



superciliosa et larvata, Shaw. 



Syrnium personatum (juv.), G. R. Gray. 

 Strix pulsatrix, Wied, Beitr. ii. (?). 

 Ciccaba perspicillata, Cass. 

 torquata, Bp. 



Descr. — Blackish, with white front and stripe over the eye. Lower parts white, 

 with brown chin- and breast-band. Arm- and hand-wings pale-banded. Some single 

 smaller feathers of the wings with white spots. On the inner side of the wings the 

 coverts are white, the wing-feathers with from five to seven not very distinct bands. 

 The dark-brown tail has from five to seven lighter bands and broad white margins. 



Le Vaillant gives a figure with grey, whitish-banded shoulder-coverts and small 

 feathers of the wing. 



Dimens. — Head 84, bill from the cere 27, from the gape — ?, wing 290, tail — ? 

 mm. long. 



Hah. Guiana ; Brazil. 



Arrived at the end of my dissertation I have only to request that it may be received 

 with forbearance, for no one can feel more sensibly than myself how much it falls short 

 of being complete. 



This Monograph, like all human works, has its wants and faults, some of which 

 might have been avoided if I could have had daily access for a year to the scientific 

 materials in Europe from which to make the necessary recapitulations. 



The only thing which renders this Monograph of value is, that I have reduced the 

 three subfamilies of Bonaparte, the four of G. R. Gray, and the five of J. Cassin into 

 two natural subfamilies of Day and Night Owls, and that I have degraded to the rank 

 of subgenera eleven genera which have been adopted by late authors as true genera. 



In order to guard against the fault of too great subdivision, I first distinguished the 

 species, and then looked for the characters of the small subgenera. After fixing the 

 limits of the subgenera, there was no difBculty in arranging them according to their 

 true genera. 



