OTUS. 259 
dark brown shaft-stripes or spots; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts 
extensively white with very little cinnamon and the brown mostly reduced 
to fine speckles ; thighs and tarsi cinnamon with cross-lines of dark brown ; 
upper parts dark rufous finely mottled with blackish brown, producing 
a rather uniform coloration; lores, continuous with a line above eyes, 
white; tips of nasal and loral bristles dusky brown or cinnamon, the 
longest about 20 mm.; modified feathers of ear-coverts and below eye 
finely speckled with white and dark brown; behind this the incomplete 
ruff forms a conspicuous rufous band along side of head, but most of the 
feathers tipped with dusky brown; feathers of ear-tufts dark rufous with 
irregular blackish spots toward tips; wing-coverts and scapulars about 
same as back, some of the latter with a large white area on outer web; 
exposed surface of quills and tail similar and a little lighter than back; 
tail crossed by several irregular lighter bars; quills dusky brown; outer 
webs of outer primaries notched with pale cinnamon; inner webs of quills 
crossed by pale cinnamon bars which become very wide on secondaries ; 
tarsi feathered nearly to toes. Bill, feet, and nails brown, the feet with 
a slight green wash; iris bright yellow. Length, 216; wing, 169; tail, 85; 
culmen, 21; tarsus, 31; middle toe with claw, 29. 
Female.—In every way similar to the male. Length, 203; wing, 164; 
tail, 81; culmen, 21; tarsus, 31; middle toe with claw, 28. In the red 
phase, the white markings, except a few bars and freckles on abdomen and 
flanks, are replaced by rufous. 
219. OTUS ROMBLONIS McGregor. 
ROMBLON SCREECH OWL. 
Otus romblonis McGrRecor, Publ. Gov. Labs. Manila (1905), 25, 12; Phil. 
Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 768; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 46. 
Banton (Celestino) ; Romblon (McGregor). 
Adult female, type.—Feathers of upper parts rufous with median black 
stripes on head, neck, and back, heaviest on head; ear-tufts colored like 
neck and inconspicuous; white spots on scapulars washed with pale ful- 
vous; lower parts and wings patterned as in O. cuyensis but more 
rufescent ; black band on side of head narrower and less marked than in 
cuyensis. Length, 222; wing, 158; tail, 76; tarsus, 29; middle toe with 
claw, 28. 
This species is similar to Otus cuyensis from which it differs in having 
shorter wings and tail. 
