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I doubt very much if this species is really distinct from Ninox min- 

 dorensis; the size is nearly the same and specimens of the two do not 

 seem to have been actually compared. 



Subfamily STRIGINyE. 

 Genus STRIX Linnaeus, 1758.* 



Large; without ear-tufts; secondaries nearly as long as primaries; 

 plumage compact; barred below, spotted above; legs and toes closely 

 feathered. 



231. 8TRIX WHITEHEADI (Sharpe). 



PALAWAN BARRED OWL. 



Byrnium whiteheadi SHARPE, Ibis (1888), 196, pi. 3; Hand-List (1899), 

 1, 294; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 



Palawan ( Whitehead, Platen, Bourns d Worcester, Celestino). 



"Adult male. General color above chocolate-brown, spotted with white, 

 the spots arranged in pairs, the one on the inner web often fulvescent; 

 scapulars forming a light patch of tawny-buff, covered with narrow bars of 

 chocolate-brown; lesser wing-coverts dark chocolate-brown, with scarcely 

 any white spots; median and greater coverts more reddish chocolate- 

 brown, transversely barred with white, slightly tinged with tawny-buff; 

 alula and primary-coverts uniform blackish brown; quills brown, crossed 

 with lighter and more rufous-brown bars, whiter near the edge, especially 

 of the secondaries, which are slightly freckled externally; the innermost 

 secondaries spotted with white, like the back; upper tail-coverts like the 

 back, but barred with tawny-buff or whitish ; tail-feathers dark chocolate- 

 brown, barred with tawny-buff or creamy white, with which the tail is 

 conspicuously tipped, the light bars, seven in number, on the center 

 feathers, broader and coalescing on the remainder; crown of head like 

 the back, thickly spotted with white, the spots arranged in pairs; feathers 

 of the hind neck with concealed bases of tawny-buff; the mantle some- 

 what more uniform brown; sides of face chestnut, deeper about the eyes 

 and on the ear-coverts, which are whiter posteriorly; ruff dark chocolate- 

 brown, barred across with rufous ; chin rufous, followed by a broad white 

 patch, narrowly barred with black; remainder of under surface of body 



den Beschreibungen von Ninox spilonotus und Ninox mindorensis so ist das 

 Ergebniss ein unsicheres, wenig befriedigendes. Der Umstand, dass in der Beschrei- 

 bung von Ninox spilonotus nur von Flecken und an keiner Stelle von Bindenzeich- 

 nung die Rede ist, sowie, dass die Innenfahhen der grosseren Schwingen a Is 'spotted 

 and barred with light rufous brown' beschrieben werden, geniigt vollkommen, urn 

 jeden Gedanken an Gleichartigkeit von N. Plateni und X. spilonotus auszusch- 

 liessen." 



*Cf. Auk (1908), 25, 371. 



