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2n. OTUS FULIGINOSUS (Sliarpe). 



PALAWAN SCREECH OWL, 



Scops fuliginosa Sharpe. Ibis (1888), 197; Hand-List (1899), 1, 287. 



Scops everetti Whitehead, Ibis (1893), 44. 



Otus fuliginosus McGregor and \Yorcester, Hand-List (1906), 46. 



Palawan ( Whitehead ) . 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Otus umhratilis but much smaller, aud entirely 

 rich brown; vermiculated and spotted as in typical Otus but auricular 

 region uniform rufous-brown; and with frontal and cervical bands pale 

 and obsolete.* 



Whitehead, who collected the type, refers this species to Scops {=Otus) 

 everetti and says: "I find that Mr. Sharpe has not much faith in his 

 Scops fuliginosa, which in all probability is only the young of S. everetti." 

 Sharpe retains tlie species in his "Hand-List" and therefore it is 

 given here. 



212. OTUS SIBUTUENSIS (Sharpe). 



SIBUTU SCREECH OWL. 



Scops sihutuensis Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893), 2, 9; Ibis (1894), 



244; Hand-List (1899), 1, 287. 

 Otus sibutuensis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46. 



Sibutii {Everett). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Otiis mantananensis but upper side of wing> 

 scarcely spotted with white and quills but faintly banded below. "Bill 

 blackish brown; feet brown; iris yellow." {Everett.) Length, 203; 

 wing, 152.t 



Everett collected an adult male and female and a young bird in Sibutu. 

 Sharpe makes the following observations: "This race is intermediate 

 I)etween >S'. menadensis [from Celebes] and S. mantananensis [from 

 Mantanani Island, Borneo] which I described last year; the white wing 

 markings, however, are altogether smaller and not so distinct, the under 

 surface of the quills being almost devoid of markings. From S. menaden- 

 sis the Sibutu bird differs in having all the markings of the upper sur- 

 face very fine and not all over as in that species. The quills have also 

 more bars in the Celebean bird than in the species from Sibutu." 



* Sharpe's diagnosis and remarks on this species are as follows: "S. similis 

 S. umbratili, sed multo minor et omnino saturate brunnea, modo Scopino vermi- 

 culata et notata, sed regione auriculari rufo-brunnea eoncolore, et fasciis fron- 

 talibus et cervicalibus pallidis obsoletis. 



"The above diagnosis well expresses the relations of this dark-colored Scops 

 owl, which is more dingy in color than any species I know." 



t Sharpe's diagnosis is as follows: "S. similis S. mantananensis sed alis extus 

 vix albo notatis, et remigibus intus vix fasciatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 8.0 

 poll., ala; 6.0." 



