PSEUDOPTYNX. 251 



Adult male. "Sides of face bright pure unmarked rufous ; lengthened 

 stiff plumes springing from base of maxilla rufous, mixed with tawny, 

 and many with dark brown shafts and tipped with dark brown; space 

 above front of eyes, uniting on forehead and extending back over eyes, 

 pale tawny-rufous ; crown and occiput dark rufous, many of the feathers 

 with a broad dark brown mesial stripe; nape and sides of neck pure 

 rufous ; lengthened ear-tufts rufous, some with very narrow brown mesial 

 linear markings near their apices; plumes bordering facial disk albescent 

 tawny, some almost pure white, tipped with dark brown ; chin and upper 

 throat tawny-rufous; middle of throat white; breast and remainder of 

 lower surface pure rufous, more dilute on lengthened tibial plumes and 

 under tail-coverts; a few pectoral plumes with large, dark brown, ter- 

 minal drops ; many abdominal plumes, with elongated dark brown, central 

 stripes; back rufous, minutely freckled with brown, each feather with a 

 bold, irregular, dark brown central stripe; scapulars like back, but some 

 of the shorter and outer ones albescent tawny on outer webs ; dark brown 

 central marks so arranged that the back, together with the scapulars, 

 appears to have three parallel dark brown stripes running down it; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts rufous brown, with darker shafts; rectrices brown, 

 minutely freckled with pale rufous, and with eight or nine rufous cross- 

 bands; lesser and median wing-coverts brown, freckled with rufous, each 

 with a narrow central brown line; greater coverts brown on inner web, 

 freckled with rufous on outer web; quills brown, alternately banded with 

 freckled brown and pale rufous; tertiaries pure rufous, with traces of 

 dark brown along the shafts ; edge of wing white ; lining yellowish white ; 

 some of the under carpal coverts rufous; thigh and tarsal coverts pale 

 rufous and tawny white. 'Iris warm brown ; bill grayish white ; feet pale 

 gray; claws white tipped with dark gray/ (Everett.) Wing, 236; 

 tarsus, 46; culmen without cere, 28; middle toe, 35." (Tweeddale.) 



This species differs from P. philippensis in its smaller size, more 

 rufous under surface, darker upper surface, and finer dark markings of 

 the mantle. 



208. PSEUDOPTYNX MINDANENSIS Grant. 



MINDANAO HORNED OWL. 



Pseudoptynx mindanensis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1906), 16, 99; Ibis 

 (1906), 496. 



Mindanao ( Ooodfellow ) . 



Adult male. "Nearly allied to P. philippensis, from which it differs 

 in being somewhat larger and in the following points: General color of 

 upper parts much darker, the feathers being brownish black, and rather 

 narrowly margined with sandy rufous, instead of bright tawny-buff; pri- 

 mary quills dark brown, with only faint traces of buff markings ; second- 

 aries similar with faintly indicated grayish buff transverse markings ; 



