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AVIFAUNA 



1853, p. 64) there was an example of this owl, caught in 

 1806 at Amsterdam after a heavy north-western gale, in 

 the cabinet of C. J. Temminck, which collection became 

 in 1820 the foundations of our present Museum. This 

 example is not more in the collection and it seems that 

 it was already wanting in 1862, when Schlegel wrote his 

 Catalogue of the Striges, for he did not make mention 

 of it in that paper. 



190. Syrnium aluco (L.). [Boschuil], 



We received only one specimen, a female, shot at Groes- 

 beek, Gelderland, in January 1906. 



191. Athene noctua (Scopoli). [Steenuil]. 

 8 specimens. 



192. Stria flammea L. [Kerkuil]. 



(Plate 8). 



We received eight specimens. A male, killed 1 May 1907 

 at Noordwijk, has the undersurface white with a few black 

 spots, the others are light or dark orange-buff on the under- 

 pays, spotted with black. In the collection van Wickevoort 

 Crommelin is a fine series of this owl; the two most in- 

 teresting specimens are two old males, which have the 

 underparts pure snowy white without any black spot; in 

 one of them, killed 19 October 1869 at Vogelenzang (27 — 8) 

 are even the feathers of the ruff nearly pure white, in the other 

 one, killed 11 December 1885 at Hillegom (27 — 16), these 

 feathers in the lower part are tipped with orange-buff and 

 blackish brown. The upperparts in these two examples are 

 very clear orange- buff mixed with light grey. The other 

 examples in the collection have the underparts white, light 

 or dark orange-buff or deep orange, more or less spotted 

 with black. 



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