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tail-feathers brown, with whitish or whitish buff transverse markings, 

 rather faintly indicated on outer webs ; under parts more heavily streaked 

 with blackish. 'Iris light brownish gold; bill whitish toward the tip, 

 bluish gray at base; feet pale gray; nails white at base, gray at tip.' 

 (Goodfellow.) Length, about 495; culmen, 51; wing, 371; tail, 185; 

 tarsus, 76." (Grant.) 



Genus OTUS Pennant, 1769. 



Small; ear-tufts well developed; primaries not greatly exceeding 

 secondaries; plumage buffy and mottled; tarsus more or less feathered; 

 toes naked in Philippine species. 



Species. 



a 1 . Tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 



ft 1 . Plumage without many fine vermiculations. 

 c 1 . Darker above. 



d 1 . Above very dark or deep rich brown. 



e 1 . Head and neck not heavily streaked with blackish brown, 

 f. Larger. 



g l . Wing of male about 165 mm evcrctti (p. 253) 



<7 2 . Wing of male about 185 mm whiteheadi (p. 256) 



/'. Smaller.... .. ) boholensis (P- 260) 



I fuligrinosus (p. 254) 



e 2 . Head and neck heavily streaked with blackish brown; wing, 160 mm. 



tail, 75 romblonis (p. 259) 



c 2 . Lighter above. 



d 1 . Above light rufous-fawn megalotis (p. 252) 



d 2 . Above bright tawny-rufous rufescens (p. 256) 



ft 2 . Plumage with many fine vermiculations. 



e 1 . Smaller, wing about 150 mm sibutuensis (p. 254) 



e 8 . Larger, wing about 165 mm. or more. 



d 1 . Head and neck heavily streaked with blackish brown.... cuyensis (p. 257) 

 d 1 . Head and neck finely mottled with blackish brown.... calayensis (p. 258) 

 a 2 . Tarsus feathered for proximal half only. 



ft 1 . Larger; rictal bristles and ear-tufts longer longicornis (p. 255) 



6*. Smaller; rictal bristles and ear-tufts shorter mindorensis (p. 256) 



209. OTUS MEGALOTIS (Gray). 

 CUMING'S SCREECH OWL. 



Scops megalotis GRAY, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 45; SHARPE, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 69; Hand-List (1899), 1, 285. 

 Lempijius ? megalotis WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 145, pi. 25, 



fig. 3. 

 Otus megalotis MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- List (1906), 46. 



Luzon ( Cuming ) . 



"Adult (type of species). Everywhere light rufous-fawn, with sepa- 

 rate vermiculations of dull blackish, a little coarser on the auricular- 

 tufts and on the wing-coverts, almost obsolete on the under surface of 

 body; tarsal feathers fulvous, slightly mottled with rufous; greater and 



