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Family STRIGIDAE: Owls 



Genus OTUS Pennant 



Otus senegalensis dislans Friedmann and Deignaa 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 29 (7) : 287, July 15, 1939. 

 =Otus scops distans Friedmann and Deignan. See Delacour, Zoologica, 



New York 26: 138-139, 1941. 

 349931. Adult female. Sathani Mae Tha (lat. 18°30' N., long. 99° 10' 



E.), Province of Chiang Mai, northwestern Siam. February 20, 1936. 



Collected by Herbert G. Deignan. Original number 1006. 

 Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Merriam 



North American Fauna 5; 96, pi. 1, July 30, 1891. 

 =Otus scops idahoensis (Merriam) , fide Aldrich MS. 

 119654. Adult male. "On a mountain on the west side of Big Wood 



River, only a few miles north of Ketchum," Blaine County, Idaho. 



September 22, 1890. Collected by Clinton H. Merriam and Vernon 0. 



Bailey. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Otus senegalensis caecus Friedmann 



Auk 46 (4) : 521, October 10, 1929. 

 =Otus scops caecus Friedmann. See Delacour, Zoologica, New York 



26: 140, 1941. 

 243663. Adult female. Sadi Malka (at the point where the Jibuti-Addis 



Ababa railway crosses the Hawash River), Ethiopia. February 1, 



1912. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 20046. 



Childs Frick African Expedition (1911-1912). 

 Pisorhina umbra Richmond 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 26:494, February 4, 1903. 

 =Otus scops umbra (Richmond). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



94: 349, 1944. 

 179101. Adult male. Simalur Island, Bariissan Islands, eastern Indian 



Ocean oflF Sumatra. November 29, 1901. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 

 Otus umbra enganensis Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 40: 93, June 30, 1927. 

 ==Otus scops enganensis Riley. See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



94: 349, 1944. 

 180711. Adult female (rufous phase). Enggano Island, Barussan Is- 

 lands, eastern Indian Ocean off Sumatra. November 12, 1904. Col- 

 lected by William L. Abbott. 

 Olus steerei Mearns 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 36:437, May 22, 1909. 

 =Otus manadensis sihutuensis (Bowdler Sharpe). See Hachisuka, Birds 



of the Philippine Islands 2: 57, 1934; Peters, Checklist of birds of the 



world 4:96, 1940. 



