270 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
I doubt very much if this species is really distinct from Ninox min- 
dorensis; the size is nearly the e and specimens of the two do not 
seem to have been actually compared. 
Subfamily STRIGIN4. 
Genus STRIX Linneus, 1758.* 
Large; without ear-tufts; secondaries nearly as long as primaries; 
plumage compact; barred below, spotted above; legs and toes closely 
feathered. 
231. STRIX WHITEHEADI (Sharpe). 
PALAWAN BARRED OWL. 
Syrnium whiteheadi SHARPE, Ibis (1888), 196, pl. 3; Hand-List (1899), 
1, 294; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 47. 
Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino). 
“Adult male-—General color above chocolate-brown, spotted with white, 
the spots arranged in pairs, the one on the inner web often fulvescent ; 
scapulars forming a light patch of tawny-buff, covered with narrow bars of 
chocolate-brown ; lesser wing-coverts dark chocolate-brown, with scarcely 
any white spots; median and greater coverts more reddish chocolate- 
brown, transversely barred with white, slightly tinged with tawny-buff ; 
alula and primary-coverts uniform blackish brown; quills brown, crossed 
with lighter and more rufous-brown bars, whiter near the edge, especially 
of the secondaries, which are slightly freckled externally ; the innermost 
secondaries spotted with white, like the back; upper tail-coverts like the 
back, but barred with tawny-buff or whitish; tail-feathers dark chocolate- 
brown, barred with tawny-buff or creamy white, with which the tail is 
conspicuously tipped, the ght bars, seven in number, on the center 
feathers, broader and coalescing on the remainder; crown of head lke 
the back, thickly spotted with white, the spots arranged in pairs; feathers 
of the hind neck with concealed bases of tawny-buff; the mantle some- 
what more uniform brown; sides of face chestnut, deeper about the eyes 
and on the ear-coverts, which are whiter posteriorly ; ruff dark chocolate- 
brown, barred across with rufous; chin rufous, followed by a broad white 
patch, narrowly barred with black; remainder of under surface of body 
den Beschreibungen von Ninox spilonotus und Ninox mindorensis so ist das 
Ergebniss ein unsicheres, wenig befriedigendes. Der Umstand, dass in der Beschrei- 
bung von Ninox spilonotus nur von Flecken und an keiner Stelle von Bindenzeich- 
nung die Rede ist, sowie, dass die Innenfahnen der grésseren Schwingen als ‘spotted 
and barred with light rufous brown’ beschrieben werden, geniigt vollkommen, um 
jeden Gedanken an Gleichartigkeit von N. Plateni und N. spilonotus auszuseh- 
liessen.” 
* Cf. Auk (1908), 25, 371. 
