Crossword-Solution: SYRNIUM 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

THE TAWNY OWL SYRNIUM ALÚCO Beak greyish yellow; irides bluish dusky; upper parts reddish brown, variously marked and spotted with dark brown, black, and grey; large white spots on the scapulars and wing coverts; primaries and tail feathers barred alternately with dark and reddish brown; lower parts reddish white, with transverse brown bars and longitudinal dusky streaks; legs feathered to the claws.

TAWNY OWL Syrnium aluco (Linnæus) The Tawny Owl is a common inhabitant of the well-wooded parts of England, Wales, and Scotland, though in the north of the last-named country it becomes decidedly scarce and local.

Now and again we hear at some villages the long-drawn, human-like cry, "Hoo, hoo, hoo," of a large Wood-Owl (Syrnium indranee), that is flying round high in the air, and answering its distant mate.

The TREE OWL (_Syrnium aluco_) is recognisable by its large head and comparatively small ear-apertures, as well as by its thick neck, slender body, short tail, thickly-feathered feet, and short toes.

This is a name used in Ceylon for a bird believed to be a kind of owl—according to Haeckel, quoted below, the _Syrnium Indrani_ of Sykes, or Brown Wood Owl of Jerdon.