252 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS, 



tail-feathers brown, witli whitish or whitish buff transverse markings, 

 rather faintly indicated on outer webs ; under parts more heavily streaked 

 with blackish. 'Iris light brownish gold; bill whitish toward the tip, 

 bluish gray at base; feet pale gray; nails white at base, gray at tip.' 

 (GoodfeUow.) Length, about 495; culmen. ol : wing, 3T1; tail, 185; 

 tarsus, 76." (Grant.) 



Genus OTFS Pennant, lv()9. 



Small; ear-tufts well developed; primaries not greatly exceeding 

 secondaries ; plumage huffy and mottled ; tarsus more or less feathered ; 

 toes naked in Philippine species. 



Species. 



a\ Tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 



b^. Plumage without many fine vermiculations. 

 c'. Darker above. 



d\ Above very dark or deep rich brown. 



c\ Head and neck not lieavily streaked with blackish brown. 

 p. Larger. 



(/'. Wing of male about l(i.5 mm everetti (p. 253) 



fj-. Wing of male about 185 mm whitehead! (p. 256) 



f. Smaller i boholensis (p. 260) 



i fulig-inosus (p. 254) 



e'-. Head and neck heavily streaked with blackish brown; wing. I(»0 mm. 



tail, 75 romblonis (p. 259) 



c\ Lighter above. 



d\ Above light rufous-fawn megalotis ( p. 252) 



cF. Above bright tawny-rufous rufescens (p. 256) 



b'-. Plumage with many fine vermiculations. 



c'. Smaller, wing about 150 mm sibutuensis (p. 254) 



c". Larger, wing about 165 mm. or more. 



(P. Head and neck heavily streaked with blackish brown... cuyensis (p. 257) 



d-. Head and neck finely mottled with blackish brown.... calayensis (p. 258) 

 a-. Tarsus feathered for proximal half only. 



b^. Larger; rictal bristles and ear-tufts longer longicornis (p. 255) 



ft". Smaller; rictal bristles and ear-tufts shorter mindorensis ( ]>. 256) 



2(K). OTUS MEGALOTIS (Gray). 



CUMINGS SCREECH OWL. 



Scops )ne(/(ilotis (iRAY, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 45; Sii.\ki'E, C'at. 



Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 69; Hand-List (1899), 1, 285. 

 Lempijius ? mcf/alotis Waluex, Trans. Zool. 8oc. (1875), 9, 145, pi. 25, 



fig. .3. 

 Otus mefialotis M(-CJregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 4(i. 



Luzon (Cuniiny). 



"Adult (type of species). — Everywhere ligiit rufous-fawn, with sepa- 

 rate vermiculations of dull blackish, a little coarser on the auricular- 

 tufts and on the wing-coverts, almost obsolete on the under surface of 

 body; tarsal feathers fulvous, slightly mottled with rufous; greater and 



