P.Z.S.1878, 

 p. 941. 



P.Z.S.1878, 

 p 942. 



632 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



13. PsEUDOPTTNX G0KNETI, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. in orig.) 



[Zamboanga, 6 , pairing, April : iris warm brown ; bill greyish white ; feet pale grey ; claws 

 white tipped with dark grey.] 



Sides of face bright pure unmarked rufous. Lengthened stiff plumes springing from base of 

 maxilla rufous mixed with tawny, and many with dark-brown shafts and tipped with dark brown. 

 Space above front of eyes, uniting on forehead and extending back over the eyes, pale tawny 

 rufous. Crown and occiput dark rufous, many of the feathers with a dark brown broad mesial 

 stripe. Nape and sides of neck pure rufous. Lengthened ear-tufts the same, some with very 

 narrow brown mesial linear markings near their apices. Plumes bordering the facial disk 

 albescent tawny ; some almost pure white, tipped with dark brown. Chin and upper throat pale 

 tawny rufous. Middle of throat white. Breast and remainder of lower surface pure rufous, 

 more dilute on lengthened tibial plumes and under tail-coverts. A few pectoral plumes, with dark- 

 brown large terminal drops. Many abdominal plumes, with dark-brown elongated central stripes. 

 Back rufous, minutely freckled with brown, each feather with a bold, irregular, dark-brown central 

 stripe. Scapulars like the back, but some of the shorter and outer feathers albescent tawny on 

 outer webs. The dark-brown central marks are so arranged that the back, together with the 

 scapulars, appears to have three parallel dark-brown stripes running down it. Uropygium and 

 upper tail-coverts rufous-brown, with darker shafts. Eectrices brown, minutely freckled with 

 pale rufous, and with eight or nine narrow pale rufous cross bands. Minor and median wing- 

 coverts brown, freckled with rufous, and each with a dark narrow central brown line. Major 

 coverts brown on inner web, freckled with rufous on outer. Quills brown, alternately banded 

 with freckled brown and pale rufous. Tertiaries pure rufous, with traces of dark brown along 

 the shafts. Carpal edge white ; wing-lining yellowish white ; some of the under carpal coverts 

 rufous. Thigh and tarsal coverts pale rufous and tawny white. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney writes to me : — " The Pseudoptynx is certainly distinct from P. jMUppi- 



nensis, and, so far as I know, is undescribed. Besides its very much smaller size, it is 



very much more rufous below, and of a much darker rufous above; and the dark central 



marks of the mantle are altogether of a different character, and very much less coarse than 



those in P. pMUppinensis. As to the difference of size, we have two specimens of P. pMlippi- 



nensis here ; and the comparison between their dimensions and those of the Zamboanga bird 



is as follows : — 



Culmen 

 "Wing. Tarsus. Middle without 



toe, cere. 



in. in. in. in. 



"P. philippinensis, '^o.l 15-5 2-4 1-6 1-4 



„ „ No. 2 imperfect 2'5 1-5 1-5 



''P.gurneyi 93 1-8 1-4 1-1." 



The dimensions of the type in the British Museum given by Mr. Sharpe (Cat. ii. p. 43) also 

 much exceed those of the Zamboanga bird. 



I name this fine Owl after Mr. Gurney, to whom for many years 1 have been largely 

 indebted for great assistance in determining the obscurer species of Kapaces. 



