ACCIPITRES. 
STRJGES. 
BUBONHLE. 
SYRNIINiE. 
Genus SYRNITTM. 
Of moderate size. Bill stout, cere advanced ; a well-developed facial disk incomplete above 
the eyes. Head without ear-tufts. Wings moderate, rounded ; the 4th quill the longest, the 
1st falling short of the 4th by the length of the tarsus and middle toe. Tail moderately long. 
Tarsus stout and thickly feathered. Toes in some thickly feathered, in others furmshe wit 
hair-like bristles, and sometimes bare ; outer anterior toe longer than the inner ; claws long an 
powerful. 
SYENIUM INDBANL 
(THE BROWN WOOD-OWL.) 
Ad. 
Symwm indrani, Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 40 (1849 in part) ; Kelaart, Prodrome, 
Cat. p. 116 (1852); Layara, Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist. 1853, xu. p. . 
• 7 T A -R Tnrl i n 121 (1862,111 part); Holdsworth, P. Z. 8>. 1872, 
Syrnium indranee , Jerd. B. ol lnd. 1. p. I 049 . Poinpv ihirl 1875 
' p. 415; Hume, Str.Feath. 1878, p.429 ; Legge, ibid. 1874, p. 842 , Rainey, ibid, 1875, 
p. 332; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 282 (1875). 
Bulacca indranee , Hume, Bough Notes, ii. p. 347 (1870). 
Syrnium oclirogenys, Hume, Str. Feath. 187o, p. 4ol. 
Brown Owl , Devil-bird , Europeans in Ceylon ; Oulama Owl, Kelaart. 
Ulama, Sinhalese. 
brurmeuB, eupite et too cto.W.us , collo wU-^*** 
eodem modo fasciatis, extus late albo transversim 1 _ • • „ d libus ) jnm neis albido angustius transfasciatis : 
albido transfasciatis, maionbus extus latihs albo a ,,5 Ypl oobrascenti-fuh 4 inconspicue briumeo fasciatim 
rectricibus bnmneis albo 12 -fasciatis : area faciali ceryina vel e t plagft anteoculari 
notata: plaga superciliari albida, scapis exited albido et brunneo regulariter transfasciato : 
nigris : limbo faciali brunneo : corpora rehquo subtus tulyescente vel aimuo o ^ c ” ncoloribus . rem igibus 
pectoris lateribus et plumis tibialibus et tarsalibus obscurius fascia . . enruleo-albicante • iride 
h-ut-A. 1... r„i„„ ;„t,'w twintis. versus basm latius notatis : rostio cieruleo-aiDicante . 
subtus brunneis ochrascenti-fulvo 
castanea : pedibus eorneis 
Adult male and female. Length to front of cere 17'0 to 18-0 inches ; culmen from cere 1 0 to > 1 1 , i 11 ^ ' 
13-5 (average of seven examples 12-75), expanse (wing 13-25) 43-5 ; tail 6-5 to 7-5 ; tarsus o , ou 
toe 1-4 to 1 - 6 , its claw (straight) 0-9 ; height of bill at cere 0 - 55 . These dimensions are from a series or si. 
Cevlonese examples. .... . . , , . , ,u- . mi] 
chocolate-brown, or a slightly reddish brown in some: pupil, in light, bluish; cere dushy bims ^ 
bluish near the cere, culmen darker than the sides, tip whitish horn-colour ; toes dusky bluish , claws 
Iris 
