260 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



220. OTUS BOHOLENSIS McGregor. 



BOHOL SCREECH OWL. 



Otus boholensis McGBEOOB, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 323. 

 Bohol (McGregor). 



Female, type. Crown, nape, and interscapular area, conspicuously 

 blackish, the feathers sparingly vermiculated and notched with sandy buff ; 

 basal portion of a few feathers sandy buff forming a narrow and hidden 

 nuchal band ; forehead whitish, the whitish marking continued as a wide 

 band over each eye to tips of ear-tufts on inner webs, outer webs blackish 

 spotted with fulvous, these white bands more or less broken by fine ver- 

 miculations of dark brown ; loral plumes whitish with blackish tips ; ear- 

 coverts grayish, shaded wih fulvous and narrowly barred with dark brown, 

 the hinder ear-coverts tipped with black forming a short band; side of 

 neck whitish with fine blackish cross-lines and wide blackish tips to the 

 feathers; behind ear-coverts an imperfect ruff of whitish feathers with 

 wide terminal or subterminal black bars ; chin whitish ; feathers of throat 

 somewhat modified in continuation of the ruff; breast, sides, and abdomen 

 rufescent cinnamon with fine vermiculations and irregularly shaped 

 median stripes of blackish brown, each feather with one or two rounded 

 spots of light buff on each web; under tail-coverts light sandy buff with 

 a few wavy blackish lines near their tips; legs sandy buff crossed by 

 distinct wavy blackish lines ; feathering of tarsi extending nearly to basal 

 joints of toes ; primaries dark brown ; the outer webs with large clear and 

 distinct spots of sandy buff, six in number on short first primary, and 

 corresponding faint bars on inner webs; secondaries dark brown with 

 sandy buff bars somewhat obscured by darker vermiculations ; the pri- 

 mary-coverts resemble the secondaries, and first quill of alula is marked 

 like the primaries; secondary-coverts, scapulars, and back vermiculated 

 with sandy buff, light buff, and blackish brown and marked with large 

 irregular blackish brown spots; under wing-coverts nearly white, inner 

 ones uniform, the outer buff mottled with blackish ; edge of wing white ; 

 tail dark brown, mottled with sandy buff and with seven or eight poorly 

 defined bars of sandy buff. Wing, 155 ; tail, 82 ; tarsus, 30 ; culmen from 

 base, 24; culmen from anterior margin of cere, 16; ear-tuft, 29. 



This owl is clearly allied to Strix lempiji Hors field, and doubtless it 

 is closely related to Scops everetti Tweeddale, with which it should be 

 compared. The type was taken in the interior of Bohol and is the only 

 specimen known. 



Genus XINOX Hodgson, 1837. 



Usually larger than Otus; neither ruff nor ear-tufts present; tarsus 

 more or less feathered ; toes sparsely covered with stiff bristles ; primaries 

 much longer than secondaries. 



