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211. OTUS FULIGINOSUS (Sharpe). 



PALAWAN SCREECH OWL. 



Scops fuliginosa SHABPE, Ibis (1888), 197; Hand-List (1899), T, 287. 



Scops everetti WHITEHEAD, -Ibis (1893), 44. 



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



Palawan (Whitehead). 



Diagnosis. Similar to Otus umbratilis but much smaller, and entirely 

 rich brown; vermiculated and spotted as in typical Otus but auricular 

 region uniform rufous-brown; and with frontal and cervical bands pale 

 and obsolete.* 



Whitehead, who collected the type, refers this species to Scops (=0tus) 

 everetti and says : "I find that Mr. Sharpe has not much ^faith in his 

 Scops fuliginosa, which in all probability is only the young of 8. everetti/' 

 Sharpe retains the species in his "Hand-List" and therefore it i? 

 given here. 



212. OTUS SIBUTUENSIS (Sharpe). 



SIBUTU SCREECH OWL. 



Scops sibutuensis SHARPE, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893), 2, 9; Ibis (1894), 



244; Hand-List (1899), 1, 287. 

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



Sibutu (Everett). 



Diagnosis. Similar to Otus mantananensis but upper side of wings 

 scarcely spotted with white and quills but faintly banded below. "Bill 

 blackish brown; feet brown; iris yellow." (Everett.) Length, 203; 

 wing, 152.f 



Everett collected an adult male and female and a young bird in Sibutu. 

 Sharpe makes the following observations: "This race is intermediate 

 between 8. menadensis [from Celebes] and 8. mantananensis [from 

 Mantanani Island, Borneo] which I described last year; the white wing 

 markings, however, are altogether smaller and not so distinct, the under 

 surface of the quills being almost devoid of markings. From 8. menaden- 

 sis the Sibutu bird differs in having all the markings of the upper sur- 

 face very fine and not all over as in that species. The quills have also 

 more bars in the Celebean bird than in the species from Sibutu." 



* Sharpe's diagnosis and remarks on this species are as follows: "S. similU 

 8. umbratili, sed multo minor et omnino saturate brunnea, modo Scopino vermi- 

 culata et notata, sed regione auriculari rufo-brunnea concolore, et fasciis fron- 

 talibus et cervicalibus pallidis obsoletis. 



"The above diagnosis well expresses the relations of this dark-colored Scops 

 owl, which is more dingy in color than any species I know." 



t Sharpe's diagnosis is as follows: "S. similis 8. mantananensis sed alis extus 

 vix albo notatis, et remigibus intus vix fasciatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 8.0 

 poll., alse 6.0." 



