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Adult.—“Everywhere bright tawny-rufous, browner on the head and 
upper parts generally, these also varied with small triangular cross-bars 
of fulvous, which become larger and more distinct on the wing-coverts ; 
the outer margin of the scapulars paler and more inclining to tawny- 
fulvous; ear-coverts 25 mm. long, and colored like the head; lores and 
forehead clear fulvous, with little black spots along the shaft of the 
feathers; sides of face rufous; inclining to dark brown around the eye; 
behind the ear-coverts a line of black feathers running down the sides of 
the neck; under surface of body tawny-rufous, paler on the lower parts, 
and yaried with little tiny spots of black along the shafts, less distinct 
toward the abdomen, and absent on thighs and under tail-coverts, which 
are uniform tawny-buff; quills dark brown, barred across with fulvous, 
paler on the outer margin of primaries, but less distinct on the second- 
aries, which are almost uniform rufous like the back, but with indistinct 
bars of dark brown on the inner web; tail rufous, mottled with dark 
brown vermiculations, making it look darker than the back, with remains 
of five or six, more or less plainly indicated, fulvous bars; under wing- 
coverts buffy white, more tawny on outer edge, and having a line of dark 
brown feathers near the outer margin. Length, 239; culmen, 229; wing, 
132; tail, 66; tarsus, 27.” (Sharpe.) 
This species is included in the Philippine list because of the single 
specimen collected by Burbidge which, however, may really represent an 
undescribed species. Sharpe says: “This bird seems to me to differ 
slightly from Bornean and Malaccan examples in having a much darker 
face, the ear-coverts shaded with black. I do not, however, propose to 
found a new species on a single example, and must wait for more speci- 
mens. The measurements of the Sooloo [=Sulu] bird are as follows: 
Length, 178; culmen, 18; wing, 122; tail, 66; tarsus, 22.” 
217. OTUS CUYENSIS McGregor. 
CUYO SCREECH OWL. 
Otus cuyensis McGrecor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 17; McGrecor 
and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 46. 
Bu-cao, Cuyo. 
Cuyo (McGregor). 
Adult male, light phase, type—Feathers of head and neck heavily 
streaked with blackish brown, the edges more or less notched with whitish 
and light rufous; ear-tufts also blackish, but edges rufous; back dark 
rufous, finely speckled with blackish, clearer rufous on upper tail-coverts ; 
each outer scapular with a large white spot on outer web followed by a 
blackish spot on tip and bordered toward base by a dark brown line; 
chin and upper throat whitish with narrow brown shaft-stripes, the webs 
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