ALUCO. ZL 
tawny-rufous, narrowly barred across with blackish brown including the 
thighs and under tail-coverts; fore neck with broad bands of white and 
chocolate-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillars like the breast; quills 
below dusky brown, barred with yellowish buff, these bars broader toward 
the base of the inner web. Length, 444; wing, 330; tail, 190; culmen, 
54; tarsus, 58. 
“Of this fine owl Mr. Whitehead obtained several specimens. Its 
nearest ally is Syrnium sinense, but it is easily distinguished from that 
species by its rufescent under surface, with the absence of white bars.” 
(Sharpe. ) 
Female.—In colors similar to the male, but size slightl} greater. “Tris 
brown; eyelids dark carmine; bill and nails black.” (Celestino.) 
Length, 460; wing, 340; tail, 200; culmen from base, 39; tarsus, 50. 
“We heard a large owl, in all probability of this species, hooting at 
night in the Calamianes Islands; a single specimen was secured in Pala- 
wan; it measured, 432 in length; wing, 202; tail, 186; culmen, 26; 
tarsus, 61; middle toe with claw, 48.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Family ALUCONIDA. 
Middle toe pectinate; ruff around eyes and across throat fully devel- 
oped; primaries much longer than secondaries; proximal half of tarsus 
fully feathered, distal half covered with much shorter, more hair-like 
plumes ; toes sparsely covered with hairs; plumage very soft and fluffy. 
Genus ALUCO Fleming, 1822. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
232. ALUCO LONGIMEMBRIS (Jerdon). 
GRASS OWL. 
Strix longimembris JERDON, Madras Jour. (1839), 10, 86. 
Striz candida (not of Latham, 1801) TickeLL, Jour. As. Soe. Bengal (1833), 
2, 572; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 308; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 302; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 342; McGrecor 
and WorRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 48. 
Aluco longimembris McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1908), 3, see. A, 283. 
Cua-gong ta-la-hib, Manila. 
Batan (McGregor, Edmonds) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Hve- 
rett); Luzon (Heriot, Steere Hap., Whitehead, Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao 
(Mearns) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp.). Indian Peninsula, Burmese provinces, north- 
ern Australia, Fiji, Formosa, Celebes. 
Adult male (Benguet, Luzon, May 10, 1903).—Feathers of upper parts 
dark brown, the bases and edges, more or less, yellowish buff, this color 
forming a collar on hind neck; many of the feathers of back and wing- 
coverts each with a small white spot near the tip; a blackish spot in 
