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bands are broader. The margins of the shoulder-coverts rusty-yellow on the outer 
webs, black-spotted and margined. The smaller feather of the wings without white 
spots, and rusty-yellow with brown, black-margined cross-bands. Inner side of the 
wing-feathers with from six to nine rusty-yellow bands. ‘Tail with nine lighter reddish 
bars on a blackish ground. The greater number of bars is a sign of youth. 
5. SYRNIUM HYLOPHILUM, G. R. Gray. 
Striz hylophila, Temm. Col. 373. 
Syrnium albotarse, G. R. Gray. 
Ulula fasciata, Des Murs, PI. Peint. 37. 
Diagn.—Size of Syrnium aluco. Breast and belly with dark cross-bands, one or two 
on each feather. 
Descr.—Rufous, with dark-brown zigzag cross-bands. Margin of the shoulder- 
coverts with a rusty-yellow stripe. Chin, belly, and sides pure white, banded with 
black and rufous. Tail with six cross-bands, in the middle nebulous, margined with 
lighter rufous and blackish ; the end of the tail whitish. Tarsi rufous, darker-banded. 
Young birds show white spots on the wings and concentric rings on the face. 
Dimens.—Head 70, wing 250, tail 150 mm. long. 
The older bird is G. R. Gray’s Syrmum albotarse, with whitish lorum and eye-stripe. 
No concentric rings on the face. The rusty-yellow bands on the wings and tail are 
without spots. The coverts of the ten hand-wings wholly black, without spots. Tar- 
sus white. 
A young bird in the British Museum, with nebulous spotted bands on the wings and 
tail, has concentric rings on the face, and rusty-red and dark cross-banded tarsi. 
6. SyRNIUM woopForRD1, Cassin. 
Athene woodfordii, A. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. 71. 
Diagn.—The lower parts with four line-like cross-bands on each feather. Between 
the last cross-bands a white band with the margin rufous. 
Descr.—Bill yellow. Front greyish-white. Around the eyes darker; face banded. 
Chin-feathers white, with from five to six dark-brown cross-bands. The smaller feathers 
of the lower parts dark brown, with rusty-yellow dark-margined cross-bands, and rhom- 
boid black-margined spots at the end of each feather. Margin of the shoulder-coverts 
rusty-yellow, with white spots, and three bands on the exterior web of each feather. 
Margins of the wing biack-brown, with from four to six yellowish-grey cross-bands with 
light ends. The small feathers on the arm-wings have white margins. Tail blackish, 
with seven rusty-grey cross-bands, more regular and distinct at the sides. The rusty- 
yellow tarsi dark-spotted. 
Hab. 8. Africa. 
