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14. Syrnium uRALENSE, Brehm. 
Stria uralensis, Pall.; Naum. 42. 1; Gould, 44. 
Ptynzx 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, pl. 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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