OTUS. 253 



primary wing-coverts rufous-fawn color, very coarsely and thickly vermie- 

 ulated with blackish, forming five or six indistinct bars ; quills blackish, 

 with six or seven bars of fawn-color, very distinct on the outer pri- 

 maries, but gradually becoming more and more obscured with blackish 

 f recklings till the bands are obsolete on the secondaries; tail blackish, 

 with six or seven bars of fawn-color, more or less obscured with f recklings 

 of blackish, which are plentifully distributed over the whole tail; under 

 wing-coverts uniform fulvous ; the under surface of the wing ashy brown, 

 with bands of fulvous. Bill pale horn-color, yellowish on under man- 

 dible; feet yellowish brown. Length, 279; culmen, 33; auricular tufts, 

 37 ; wing, 165 ; tail, 89 ; tarsus, 37." (Sharpe.) 



The type, secured by Cuming in "Manila," is the only known specimen. 



210. OTUS EVERETTI ( Tweeddale ) . 



EVERETT'S SCREECH OWL. 

 Scops everetti TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 492; SHABPE, Hand-List 



(1899), 1, 287. 

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



Basilan (Everett)-, Mindanao (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen)-, 

 Samar ( Steere Exp. ) . 



Description. "May be described as being a large form of Scops 

 [=0tus~] lempiji as it occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rich brown 

 coloring of the Javan species; the same broad dark brown mark in the 

 form of a parallelogram on the head and nape; the same pale colored 

 forehead, stripe above each eye and round the nape, and the broad dark 

 stripe leading from behind the eye, and including most of the ear-tufts; 

 there are no pale uniform tawny or fulvous scapulars. Underneath, the 

 markings differ from those of the Javan bird by being more confused, 

 and by the absence of regular dark brown cross-markings on the ab- 

 dominal plumes. The general coloring of the under surface is of a 

 ruddier brown. Male: 'Iris deep brown; feet whitish/ (Everett.) 

 Wing, 165 ; tail, 89 ; tarsus, 30 ; culmen, 16. Female : 'Iris warm brown ; 

 bill pale greenish leaden, nearly white; feet whitish gray; claws dark 

 gray/ (Everett.) Wing, 171; tail, 92; tarsus, 30; culmen, 17." 

 (Tweeddale.) 



"A single male specimen, secured in Palawan, measured 203 in length ; 

 wing, 137; tail, 73; culmen, 15; tarsus, 29; middle toe and claw, 26. 

 Bill pale horn, darkest at base ; feet dirty white ; nails black at tip, gray 

 at base ; food insects. This specimen started within a meter of the head 

 of the collector, and flew less than three meters before alighting. 



"If 8. everetti is a smaller race of S. lempiji it is hard to understand 

 the above measurements. We were at first inclined to identify our Pala- 

 wan specimen with the latter species, but after comparison with Dr. 

 Steere's specimen of 8. everetti from Samar, find ourselves unable to do 

 so." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



