260 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
220. OTUS BOHOLENSIS McGregor. 
ee | OWL. 
Otus boholensis McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sei. (1907), 2, sec. A, 323. 
Bohol (McGregor). 
Female, type-—Crown, nape, and interscapular area, conspicuously 
blackish, the feathers sparingly vermiculated and notched with sandy buff ; 
basal portion of a few feathers sandy buff forming a narrow and hidden 
nuchal band ; forehead whitish, the whitish marking continued as a wide 
band over each eye to tips of ear-tufts on inner webs, outer webs blackish 
spotted with fulvous, these white bands more or less broken by fine ver- 
miculations of dark brown; loral plumes whitish with blackish tips; ear- 
coverts grayish, shaded wih fulvous and narrowly barred with dark brown, 
the hinder ear-coverts tipped with black forming a short band; side of 
neck whitish with fine blackish cross-lines and wide blackish tips to the 
feathers; behind ear-coverts an imperfect ruff of whitish feathers with 
wide terminal or subterminal black bars; chin whitish; feathers of throat 
somewhat modified in continuation of the ruff; breast, sides, and abdomen 
rufescent cinnamon with fine vermiculations and irregularly shaped 
median stripes of blackish brown, each feather with one or two rounded 
spots of light buff on each web; under tail-coverts light sandy buff with 
a few wavy blackish lines near their tips; legs sandy buff crossed by 
distinct wavy blackish lines; feathering of tarsi extending nearly to basal 
joints of toes; primaries dark brown; the outer webs with large clear and 
distinct spots of sandy buff, six in number on short first primary, and 
corresponding faint bars on inner webs; secondaries dark brown with 
sandy buff bars somewhat obscured by darker vermiculations; the pri- 
mary-coverts resemble the secondaries, and first quill of alula is marked 
like the primaries; secondary-coverts, scapulars, and back vermiculated 
with sandy buff, hight buff, and blackish brown and marked with large 
irregular blackish brown spots; under wing-coverts nearly white, inner 
ones uniform, the outer buff mottled with blackish; edge of wing white; 
tail dark brown, mottled with sandy buff and with seven or eight poorly 
defined bars of sandy buff. Wing, 155; tail, 82; tarsus, 30; culmen from 
base, 24; culmen from anterior margin of cere, 16; ear-tuft, 29. 
This owl is clearly allied to Strix lempijt Horsfield, and doubtless it 
is closely related to Scops everetti Tweeddale, with which it should be 
compared. The type was taken in the interior of Bohol and is the only 
specimen known. 
Genus NINOX Hodgson, 1837. 
Usually larger than Otus; neither ruff nor ear-tufts present; tarsus 
more or less feathered ; toes sparsely covered with stiff bristles ; primaries 
much longer than secondaries. 
