OTUS. 257 



Adult. "Every where bright tawny-rufous, browner on the head and 

 upper parts generally, these also varied with small triangular cross-bars 

 of fulvous, which become larger and more distinct on the wing-coverts; 

 the outer margin of the scapulars paler and more inclining to tawny- 

 fulvous; ear-coverts 25 mm. long, and colored like the head; lores and 

 forehead clear fulvous, with little black spots along the shaft of the 

 feathers; sides of face rufous; inclining to dark brown around the eye; 

 behind the ear-coverts a line of black feathers running down the sides of 

 the neck; under surface of body tawny-rufous, paler on the lower parts, 

 and varied with little tiny spots of black along the shafts, less distinct 

 toward the abdomen, and absent on thighs and under tail-coverts, which 

 are uniform tawny-buff; quills dark brown, barred across with fulvous, 

 paler on the outer margin of primaries, but less distinct on the second- 

 aries, which are almost uniform rufous like the back, but with indistinct 

 bars of dark brown on the inner web; tail rufous, mottled with dark 

 brown vermiculations, making it look darker than the back, with remains 

 of five or six, more or less plainly indicated, fulvous bars ; under wing- 

 coverts buffy white, more tawny on outer edge, and having a line of dark 

 brown feathers near the outer margin. Length, 239 ; culmen, 229 ; wing, 

 132; tail, 66; tarsus, 27." (Sharpe.) 



This species is included in the Philippine list because of the single 

 specimen collected by Burbidge which, however, may really represent an 

 undescribed species. Sharpe says: "This bird seems to me to differ 

 slightly from Bornean and Malaccan examples in having a much darker 

 face, the ear-coverts shaded with black. I do not, however, propose to 

 found a new species on a single example, and must wait for more speci- 

 mens. The measurements of the Sooloo [=Sulu] bird are as follows: 

 Length, 178; culmen, 18; wing, 122; tail, 66; tarsus, 22." 



217. OTUS CUYENSIS McGregor. 

 CUYO SCBEECH OWL. 



Otus cuycnsis MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 17; McGREGOB 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 46. 



Bu-cao, Cuyo. 

 Cnyo (McGregor}. 



Adult male, light phase, type. Feathers of head and neck heavily 

 streaked with blackish brown, the edges more or less notched with whitish 

 and light rufous; ear-tufts also blackish, but edges rufous; back dark 

 rufous, finely speckled with blackish, clearer rufous on upper tail-coverts; 

 each outer scapular with a large white spot on outer web followed by a 

 blackish spot on tip and bordered toward base by a dark brown line; 

 chin and upper throat whitish with narrow brown shaft-stripes, the webs 

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