. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 244 BCBONIDiR. colour; claws horny grey; iris hazol. Total length 12-2 inches, wing S-4. tail 5-1, tarsus 1-55. Obs. Mr. Gosse's typical specimen differs somewhat from the one described in the less rufescent tone of the plumage, especially under- neath, where the bird is also plainly vermiculated with brown cross lines ; the bars on the tail about nine in number. Hab. Foot of Asio grammicus. a. Ad. st. Jamaica. b. Jut. st. Jamaica. c. Ad. st. Jamaica. d. 5 ad. sk. Near Spanishtown, Jamaica, Oct. 1862 (TF. T. Marsh). e. Sternum. Jamaica.
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 244 BCBONIDiR. colour; claws horny grey; iris hazol. Total length 12-2 inches, wing S-4. tail 5-1, tarsus 1-55. Obs. Mr. Gosse's typical specimen differs somewhat from the one described in the less rufescent tone of the plumage, especially under- neath, where the bird is also plainly vermiculated with brown cross lines ; the bars on the tail about nine in number. Hab. Foot of Asio grammicus. a. Ad. st. Jamaica. b. Jut. st. Jamaica. c. Ad. st. Jamaica. d. 5 ad. sk. Near Spanishtown, Jamaica, Oct. 1862 (TF. T. Marsh). e. Sternum. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. Type of species. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. Smithsonian Institution [P.]. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. 16. SYRNIUM. Type. Symium, Saviff>i. Bcscr. Bgypte, p. 298 (1809) S. aluco. L'lula, Cnvier, Bepi. Anim. i. p. 329 (1817) S. uralense. Aluco, Kaup, Naiiirl. 8yst. p. 190 (1829, nee Flem.) . S. aluco. Ciccaba, IFaf/Ier, Isis, 1832, p. 1222 S. huhulum. Bulaca, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 169 (1836) S. newarense. Scotiaptex, Sivains. Class)/. B. ii. p. 217 (1837) S. cinereum. Meseidus, Hodgs. J. A. 8. B. x. p. 28 (1841) S. newarense. Pulsatrix, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 771 S. torquatum. PtjTix, Bp. Consp. I. p. 53 (1850) S. uralense. Myrtha, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541 S. seloputo. Macabra, Bp. I. c. p. 541 S. hylophUum. GiseUa, Bp. I. c. p. 541 S. harrisi. Range. The whole of the New World, and the entire Old World also, excepting Madagascar, the Austro-Malayan subregion, Australia, and Oceania. Key to the Species. a. Crown of head mottled or barred, never entirely uniform. a'. Toes plumed*. a". Belly with mesial streaks of blackish. * SyTrnium fulvescens, Sol. & Salv., seems to be the only Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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