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tail-feathers brown, with whitish or whitish buff transverse markings, 
rather faintly indicated on ae ; under parts more heavily streaked 
with blackish. ‘Iris light bro gold; bill whitish toward the tip, 
bluish gray at base; feet pale gray; nails white at base, gray at tip.’ 
(Goodfellow.) Length, about 495; culmen, 51; wing, 371; tail, 185; 
tarsus, 76.” (Grant.) 
Genus OTUS Pennant, 1769. 
Small; ear-tufts well developed; primaries not greatly exceeding 
secondaries; plumage buffy and mottled; tarsus more or less feathered ; 
toes naked in Philippine species. 
Species. 
a’. Tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 
bt. Plumage without many fine vermiculations. 
c'. Darker above. 
d', Above very dark or deep rich brown. 
e’. Head and neck not heavily streaked with blackish brown. 
fi. Larger. 
Gi Wane OL mallelalbout UG orn eee eee eres everetti (p. 253) 
g*. Wing of male about 185 mm... whiteheadi (p. 256) 
fA. Smaller soe. os sss ee cate cnes ecsckeee Stocco hee boholensis (p. 260) 
fuliginosus (p. 254) 
e*. Head and neck heavily streaked with blackish brown; wing, 160 mm. 
taUTS TD Ages SOO EASA es eS romblonis (p. 259) 
ce’. Lighter above. 
ms Aboveslight-rutovs tay: ss ete a Pes A ere megalotis (p. 252) 
ad. Above: bright, tawmy ruts. 2.2 sto nee eee rufescens (-p. 256) 
b*. Plumage with many fine vermiculations. 
Go smaller, wing about VO lm 2a ees ee eer eree sibutuensis (p. 254) 
c. Larger, wing about 165 mm. or more. 
d', 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) 
62, Smaller; rictal bristles and ear-tufts shorter.................. mindorensis (p. 256) 
209. OTUS MEGALOTIS (Gray). 
CUMING’S SCREECH OWL, 
Scops megalotis Gray, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 45; SHarpr, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 69; Hand-List (1899), 1, 285. 
Lempijius ? megalotis WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soe. (1875), 9, 145, pl. 25, 
fig. 3. 
Otus megalotis McGregor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 46. 
Luzon (Cuming). 
“Adult (type of species).—Everywhere light 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 
