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SYENIUM TIEALENSE. 



(URAL OWL.) 



Strix uralensis, Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs, i. p. 445 (1771). 



Strix liturata, Tengmalm, Vet. Ak, Handl. 1793, p. 264. 



Strix macroura, Wolf, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. i. p. 84 (1810). 



i.Strix macrocephala, Meisn. Syst. Verz. Vog. Schweiz, p. 34 (1815). 



Surnia uralensis (Pall.), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, pi. 40 (1826). 



Ulula litturata (Tengm.), Steph. torn. cit. pt. 2, p. 60 (1826). 



Syrnium uralense (Pall.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315. 



Syrnium macrocephalum (Meisn.), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 115 (1831). 



Scotiaptex uralensis (Pall.), Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 216 (1837). 



Syrnium uralense (Pall.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 6 (1838). 



Ulula uralensis (Pall.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 32 (1840). 



Ptynx uralensis (Pall.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 8 (1841). 



Strix litturata, Tengm., Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 124 (1849). 



Ptynx liturata (Tengm.), Ludw. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 270. 



Habichts-JEule, TJral-Habichts-Eule, German ; Slag-ugle, Norwegian ; Slaguggla, Swedish ; 

 Vurupbllb, Finnish ; Baba, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



Temminck, PI. Col. 27; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 36; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 6; Fritsch, 

 Vog. Eur. taf. 12. figs. 1, 2; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 42. fig. 1; Sundevall, Svensk. 

 Fogl. pi. 24. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 44 ; Susemihl, Vog. Eur. taf. 42. 



Ad. albus supra et subtus saturate fusco conspicue striatus : area oculorum cinereo-alba plumis scapis nigro- 

 fuscis, et plumis rigidis albis saturate fusco maculatis cincta : remigibus et rectricibus saturate fuscis 

 griseo albo trausfasciatis : Cauda elongata., rotundata, et albido terminata : pedibus lanatis albidis vix 

 pallida fusco notatis : rostro flavido : hide fusca. 



Adult Female (Archangel, 26th November). Upper parts white, broadly streaked with dark brown; upper 

 tail-coverts brown, mottled with ashy grey ; quills dark brown, barred and tipped with ashy brownish 

 grey ; tail similarly marked ; but the light bars are slightly marbled with darker ashy brown, and the 

 tip is nearly white ; forehead and space between the facial disks deep brown ; facial disks greyish white, 

 the feathers having blackish shafts ; ruff white, mottled with deep brown ; underparts white, broadly 

 streaked with deep brown ; feet and legs densely feathered, white with a few brownish grey mottlings ; 

 bill deep yellowish; iris dark brown. Total length about 24 inches, culmen 1/8, wing 14/0, tail 1110, 

 much rounded, the outside feathers being fully l - 5 inch shorter than the central ones, tarsus 2 - 4. 



Adult Mule (Archangel). Does not differ from the adult female, except in greater purity of colour and in 

 its smaller size. 



