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bars, which become pure white on the margins of the inner 
webs; uropygials pale greyish brown, irregularly vermicu- 
lated with dark brown, and having only indications of one or 
two very narrow imperfect bars near the tips; the next pair 
of rectrices with the outer webs unbarred, and coloured like 
the uropygials; the inner webs broadly barred with dull 
brown; the rest of the tail-feathers dark brown, irregularly 
barred on both webs with pale ochreous, which becomes nearly 
white towards the margins of the inner webs; all the rectrices 
tipped with white; facial disk greyish white, the feathers 
with blackish shafts and two or three narrow bars of dark 
brown across both webs; the ruff surrounding the disk 
blackish brown, beautifully barred with white, above the 
anterior part of the eye, and on the chin the white bars suffused 
with rufous ; underparts white, all the feathers with a central 
broad streak of blackish brown, and complete transverse bars 
on both webs of the same colour, the feathers of the fore-neck 
having one bar, those on the breast two, on the abdomen 
three, and on the under tail-coverts four; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries white, irregularly barred and spotted with brown ; 
tibial feathers cream-colour, transversely barred with brown ; 
feathers covering the tarsi and toes white, irregularly mottled 
here and there with brown; cere green; bill green, yellow at 
tip ; iris black. Length, 19 inches ; expanse, 44°5 ; wing, 13°6 ; 
tail, 8°6; tarsus, 1°85; bill from gape, 1:45; cere, 0'7; closed 
wing short of end of tail, 2. 
Adult male.—Similar to the female in colour, but the ear- 
coverts darker and more strongly barred; cere olive; bill 
green, yellow at tip; iris dark brown; toe-scales pale green ; 
claws black, slaty at bases. Length, 18-7 inches ; expanse, 42°6 ; 
wing, 12°7; tail, 85; tarsus, 1°8; bill from gape, 1:46; cere, 
0:65; closed wings short of end of tail, 1:7; weight, 1 lb. 33 oz. 
The measurements given above were taken from fresh birds, 
the wings being measured on the under surface. As this is 
not the usual practice in measuring wings of large birds, I 
must mention that, taken on the upper surface with a tape, 
the wing of the female has a length of 14 inches, and that of 
the male, 13. 
This species differs from S. davidi by its smaller size, vermi- 
culated (not plain) rump, and different character of markings. 
From S. nivicolum it differs in being larger, in not having the 
uropygials barred, and by its colour.* With the ordinary 
form of Syrnium aluco it could not be confounded for a 
* As already noticed, S. F., IX., p. 311m, I consider this merely the pale western 
form of Syrnium nivicolum. I havea series of birds from the Himalayas of the 
Punjab, any one of which might have sat for the figure given by Dr. Scully of his 
supposed new species, and which answer perfectly to his description. 
