250 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



206. PSEUDOPTYNX PHILIPPENSIS Kaup. 



LUZON HORNED OWL. 



Pseudoptynx philippensis KAUP, Cont. Orn. (1852), 117. 



Bubo philippinensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 43. 



Pseudoptynx philippensis WALDEN, Trans. Zcx>l. Soc. (1875), 9, pt. 2, 144, 

 pi. 25, fig. 2; SHABPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 284; MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 4. 



Bubo philippensis GRANT, Ibis (1894), 503. 



Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor). 



"Adult (type of species). Above tawny-rufous, the feathers mesially 

 dark brown, giving a closely striped appearance; the wing-coverts rather 

 darker, some of the scapulars and greater-coverts externally creamy buff, 

 forming a kind of longitudinal bar down the latter; entire head and 

 auricular-tufts colored like the back, but somewhat more narrowly 

 streaked; quills dull brown, tipped with fulvous, more plainly on the 

 secondaries, the primaries spotted on the outer and barred on the inner 

 web with pale tawny-rufous, the bars more distinct on the secondaries; 

 tail-feathers dull brown, tipped with fulvous and crossed with a few bars 

 of tawny-buff, the middle feathers nearly uniform, with only one bar and 

 indications of a second, the bars gradually increasing in number toward 

 the outer tail-feather, which has five bars on the inner web, and is ex- 

 ternally tawny-buff; lores white, the anterior bristles black toward tip; 

 sides of face tawny, with white shafts; facial disk tawny, with central 

 streaks of brown to the feathers, which are fulvous at base ; under surface 

 of body buffy white, longitudinally streaked with dark brown centers to 

 the feathers, each mesial streak having a narrow edging of rufous on each 

 side, and decreasing in width toward the abdomen and under tail-coverts, 

 the tarsal feathers entirely uniform ; under wing-coverts buffy white, the 

 outermost longitudinally spotted with dark brown, the greater series 

 whitish at base, brown at tip, resembling the inner lining of the wing. 

 Bill horn-blue at base, yellow at tip ; feet fleshy brown, claws light horn- 

 color. Length, 546; auricular-tufts, 33; culmen, 58; wing, 356; tail, 

 178; tarsus, 68." (Sharpe.) 



An adult male was taken near Irisan, Benguet Province, Luzon. Iris 

 yellow ; bill pale horn-blue, cere similar but darker ; feet pale dingy blue ; 

 nails blackish. Length, 483 ; wing, 350 ; tail, 185 ; culmen from base, 47 ; 

 tarsus, 77. 



207. PSEUDOPTYNX GURNEYI Tweeddale. 



GT/RNEY'S HORNED OWL. 



Pseudoptynx gurneyi TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 940, pi. 58; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), T, 284; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 46. 



Mindanao (Everett). 



