260 MANUAL OF I'lilLIPl'INE BIRDS. 



220. OTUS BOHOLENSIS McGregor. 

 BOHOL SCREECH OWL. 

 Otus boholeyisis McGregor. Pliil. .Tour. Sci. ( 1907). 2, sec. A. 32.3. 

 Bohol ( McGrego r ) . 



Female, type. — Crown, nape, and interscapular area, conspicuously 

 blackish, the feathers sparingly verniiculated and notched with sandy buff ; 

 basal portion of a few feathers sandy Iniff forming a narrow and hidden 

 nuchal band; forehead whitish, the whitish marking continued as a wide 

 band over each eye to tips of ear-tufts on inner webs, outer webs blackish 

 spotted with fulvous, these white l)ands more or less broken l)y fine ver- 

 miculations of dark brown; loral plumes wliitish with blackish tips; ear- 

 coverts grayish, shaded wih fulvous and narrowly barred with dark brown, 

 the hinder ear-coverts tipped with lilack forming a short band ; side of 

 neck whitish with fine blackish cross-lines and wide blackish tips to the 

 feathers; behind ear-coverts an imperfect ruff of whitish feathers with 

 wide terminal or subterminal black bars; chin whitish; feathers of throat 

 somewhat modified in continuation of the ruff; breast, sides, and abdomen 

 rufescent cinnamon with fine vermiculations and irregularly shaped 

 median stripes of blackish l)rowii, each feather with one or two rounded 

 spots of light buff on each web; under tiiil-coverts light sandy buff with 

 a few wavy blackish lines near their tips; legs sandy buff crossed by 

 distinct wavy blackish lines; feathering of tarsi extending nearly to bavsal 

 joints of toes ; primaries dark brown ; the outer webs with large clear and 

 distinct spots of sandy buff, six in number on short first primary, and 

 corresponding faint bars on inner webs ; secondaries dark brown with 

 sandy buff bars somewhat obscured by darker vermiculations ; the pri- 

 mary-coverts resemble the secondaries, and first quill of alula is marked 

 like the primaries; secondary-coverts, scapulars, and back verniiculated 

 with sandy buff, light buff, and blackish brown and marked with large 

 irregular blackish brown spots; under wing-coverts nearly wbite, inner 

 ones uniform, tbe outer Iniff mottled with blackisb ; edge of wing wbite: 

 tail dark brown, mottled with sandy buff' a-nd with seven or eigbt poorly 

 defined bars of sandy buff. Wing, lo') ; tail, 83 ; tarsus, 30; culmen from 

 base, 24; culmen from anterior margin of core, 16; ear-tuft, 29. 



This owl is clearly allied to Sfrl.r leinpiji Horsfield, and doubtless it 

 is closely related to Scops ereretfi Tweoddalc, with wliicli it sliould be 

 compared. The type was taken in the interior of Boliol and is ttic only 

 specimen known. 



(iemis XINOX Hodgson, 1837. 



Usually larger than Otus; neither ruff nor ear-tufts present; tarsus 

 more or less feathered : toes sparsely covered witii stiff bristles : primaries 

 much longer than secondaries. 



