. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 258 BUBONIBiE. a spot, the innermost ones barred with white; upper tail-coverts light brown, banded with white or pale yellowish; tail brown, rather broadly tipped with white and crossed with five other bands of yellowish, inchning to white on the outer webs ; frontal plumes dark brown ; facial aspect duU white, obscurely barred with brown ; the feathers in front and over the eye and the loral plumes purer wliite, the latter terminating in blackish bristles, the plumes round the eye dark brown ; facial ruff dark brown, banded with white or yellow
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 258 BUBONIBiE. a spot, the innermost ones barred with white; upper tail-coverts light brown, banded with white or pale yellowish; tail brown, rather broadly tipped with white and crossed with five other bands of yellowish, inchning to white on the outer webs ; frontal plumes dark brown ; facial aspect duU white, obscurely barred with brown ; the feathers in front and over the eye and the loral plumes purer wliite, the latter terminating in blackish bristles, the plumes round the eye dark brown ; facial ruff dark brown, banded with white or yellowish, especially on the lower portion; chin dusky brown, with. Foot of Si/rnium nebulositm, to show extent of feathering. whitish shaft-lines ; rest of under surface yellowish white, the breast barred with brown and the flanks broadly streaked down the centre with the same colour, the abdomen and under tail-coverts much more narrowly streaked; leg-feathers dull white, everywhere minutely spotted and barred with brown; under wing-coverts white, streaked with brown, the inner ones washed with yellowish ; the lower series ashy brown, barred with yellowish white on the inner web, the base being entirely of the latter colour; and hence this series resembles the inner lining of the wing, which is dull or ashy brown, regularly and broadly barred with yellowish white; biU yellow; iris brownish black. Total length 20 inches, wing 12-8, tail 9, tarsus 2-5. Hab. Eastern region of the United States. a. Ad. St. North America. Lord Odo Russell [P.]. 8. Syrniumfulvescens*. Symium fulvescens, Scl. 8f Sah. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 58; Gray, Hioid-l. B. i. p. 48 ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. p. 116. Ulula fulvescens, Schl. Mus. Mevue Aceipitr. p. 19. * Syrnium sartorii. Mr. Ridgway separates a race from Mirador, Mexico, as Syrnium nehdosum, var. sartorii, with the following diagnosis:â"Colours blackish sepia and clear white ; face without any darker concentric ; lie describes the race
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