254 DR. J. J. KAUP’S MONOGRAPH OF THE STRIGIDA. 
7. SYRNIUM SINENSE, G. R. Gray. 
Strix sinensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 53. 
orientalis, Shaw ; Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. t. 21. 
Diagn.—Lower parts rufous, with large white spots. Each feather with two fine 
narrow black cross-bands. Head, neck, and back whitish, variegated on a rufous 
ground-colour. 
Descr.—Larger than Otus vulgaris. Lorum-feathers white with black ends. Plumage 
above the eye white, black-banded. Face rusty-brown, each feather with a blackish 
band and a broad white margin, which form concentric rings. Chin white. Feathers 
on the hinder margins of the ear black, the last with rufous. Head-feathers burning 
rusty-red, with black points and with a broad black band. Shoulder-coverts and wing 
at the base rusty-red, at the top black, with ash-grey zigzag drawing. The exterior 
margins of the shoulder-coverts light rusty-red, with large white spots and narrow 
black cross-bands. The arm-wings with seven dark-brown bands, and with lighter 
whitish-bounded bands, which are pointed with dark brown. The wings on the exterior 
webs rusty-yellow, from the beginning of the emarginations blackish-ocellated and 
pointed, with from six to eight blackish bands. On the interior part of the wings the 
coverts are rusty-yellow and whitish, with fine black bands and arrow-spots ; near the 
base of the wing-feathers a large spot of rusty-yellow. Base of the tail reddish-brown, 
the top black, with seven lighter, pointed, black-bounded cross-bands. On the under 
side the tail is rusty-yellow, with seven line-like cross-bands. The margins are grey, 
nebulous, and show three broader bands. Tarsi whitish, blackish-banded. 
Dimens.—Head 77-80, wing 327-330, tail 190 mm. long. 
8. SyRNIUM SELOPUTO. 
Strix seloputo, Horsf. 
pagodarum, Temm. Col. 230. 
Diagn.—Cheeks, lorum, and front burning rusty-red. 
Descr.—A handsome Owl with very variegated plumage, of the size of Syrnium 
nebulosum. On the superior parts brownish, intermixed with rusty-yellow and white, 
and with black-bounded cross-bands. Margins of the shoulder-coverts white, with five 
narrow black cross-bands across the two webs of each feather. The small feathers of 
the wing have white spots, are black-bounded, and have cross-bands on the outer webs. 
On the outer webs of the wing-feathers from five to seven lighter cross-bands, which 
are white from the beginning of the emarginations, black-bounded. The lower parts 
white, intermixed with rusty-yellow down. Each feather with from three to four 
pretty large black cross-bands. Tail brown, with single white spots, forming on the 
exterior feathers eight lighter cross-bands ; the under side with twelve whitish bands, 
near the base blackish-bounded. ‘Tarsi dirty-white, blackish-banded. 
