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211. OTUS FULIGINOSUS (Sharpe). 
Lt oe OWL. 
Scops fuliginosa SHARPE, Ibis (1888), 197; Hand-List (1899), 1, 287. 
Scops everetti WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1893), 44. 
Otus fuliginosus MCGREGOR and WorCcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 46. 
Palawan (Whitehead). 
Diagnosis.—Similar to Otus umbratilis but much smaller, and 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 the species in his “Hand-List” and therefore it is 
given here. 
212. OTUS SIBUTUENSIS (Sharpe). 
SIBUTU SCREECH OWL. 
Scops sibutuensis 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. 
Sibutu (Hverett). 
Diagnosis.—Similar to Otus mantananensis but upper side of wings 
scarcely spotted with white and quills but faintly banded below. “Bull 
blackish brown; feet brown; iris yellow.” (Hverett.) Length, 203; 
wing, 152.7 
Everett collected an adult male and female and a young bird in Sibutu. 
Sharpe makes the following observations: “This race is intermediate 
between 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.” 
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* 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 concolore, 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.” 
7 Sharpe’s diagnosis is as follows: “S. similis 8S. mantananensis sed alis extus 
vix albo notatis, et remigibus intus vix fasciatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 8.0 
poll., ale 6.0.” 
