coUiicted in the Philippine Islands, 97 



Mr. Everett, 1 believe, also obtained this Owl on the 

 Laguna de Bay, a large lake to the S.E. of Manila. 



Iris bright yellow ; bill dull bluish white ; feet pinkish 

 brown. 



27. Scops whiteheadi. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 440.) 



On several occasions during my first visit to Benguet I 

 heard a most peculiar and powerful cry shortly after nightfall. 

 The natives of the district (as is usual when they hear 

 nocturnal noises) declared it was the devil. The cry is best 

 written oik-oik-oik-ook, with an interval between each oik, 

 and the ook a well drawn out sound. 



It was not until the following year, when camped out on 

 Monte Data, that I again heard this same peculiar cry, and 

 after waiting about for several evenings in open parts of the 

 forest we were fortunate in securing our first specimen of 

 this fine Scops Owl, which is the largest representative of the 

 genus in the Old World. 



We secured three more specimens during five weeks spent 

 on the mountain, and on our descent to the Igorroti village 

 at the foot of the mountain a native brought me a female 

 with a nestling just hatched; this was on the 14th of 

 February. This Scops is probably confined to the mountain- 

 regions of North Luzon, as we did not hear it again after 

 leaving Lepanto. 



Iris golden brown ; bill brownish white, tipped with white ; 

 feet dull white, nails white. 



28. Scops longicornis. (Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 504.) 

 When returning home at sunset after one of my long ex- 

 cursions in the mountains of Benguet, I was attracted into 

 the dark pine-forest by a peculiar whistling note, which may 

 be written quop, and resembles that of the European Scops 

 [S. giu) . As I was then living more than five miles from 

 the forest in which I heard the Owl, I moved to an Igorroti 

 village surrounded by pine^forest. 



For some nights, although we succeeded in getting under 

 the trees in which the Owls were calling, it was quite im- 

 possible to see the birds ; but one evening a bird commenced 



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