1878.] ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 941 



Sides of face bright pure unmarked rufous. Lengthened stiff 

 plumes springing from base of maxilla rufous mixed with tawnv 

 and many with dark-brown shafts and tipped with dark brown' 

 bpace above front of eyes, uniting on forehead and extending back 

 over the eyes pale tawny rufous. Crown and occiput dark lufous 

 many of the feathers with a dark brown broad mesial stripe. Nane 

 and sides of neck pure rufous. Lengthened ear-tufts the same 

 some with very narrow brown mesial linear markings near their 

 apices. Plumes bordering the facial disk albescent tawny ; some 

 almost pure white, tipped with dark brown. Chin and upper throat 

 pale tawny rufous. Middle of throat white. Breast and remainder 



lower surface pure rufous, more d.lute on lengthened tibial 

 plumes and under tail-coverts. A few pectoral plumes, with 

 dark-brown large terminal drops. Many abdominal plumes, with 

 dark-brown elongated central stripes. Back rufous, minutely 

 freckled with brown, each feather with a bold, irregular, dark-brown 

 central stripe. Scapulars like the back, but some of the shorter 

 and outer albescent tawny on outer webs. The dark brown central 

 marks are so arranged that the back, together with the scapulars 

 appears to have three parallel dark-brown stripes running down it' 

 Uropygmm and upper tail-coverts rufous-brown, with darker shafts' 

 Kectrices brown, minutely freckled with pale rufous, and with eight or 

 nine narrow pale rufous cross bands. Minor and median wing-coverts 

 brown, freckled with rufous, and each with a dark narrow central 

 brown line. Major coverts brown on inner web, freckled with 

 rufous on outer. Quills brown, alternately banded with freckled 

 brown and pa e rufous. Tertiaries pure rufous, with traces of dark 

 brown along the shafts. Carpal edge white; wing- lining yellowish 

 white ; some of the under carpal coverts rufous. Thigh and tarsal 

 coverts pale rufous and tawny white. 



Mr. J. II. Gurney writes to me:— "The Pseudoptynx is cer- 

 tainly distmct from P. philippinensis, and, so far as I know, is uu- 

 descnbed Besides its very much smaller size, it is very much more 

 rufous below, and of a much darker rufous above ; and the dark- 

 central marks of the mantle are altogether of a different character 

 and very much less coarse than those in P. philippinensis. As to the 

 difference of size, we have two specimens of P. philippinensis here ■ 

 and the comparison between their dimensions and those of the 

 Ziamboanga bird is as follows:— 



_.. Culmen 



VVing. Tarsus. Middle without 

 toe. cere. 



« D *•;• • • -vr ln - iu ' in - in- 



f. philippinensis, No. 1 . . 155 2*4 1-6 1-4 



" » No. 2.. imperfect 2o 1.5 1-5 



"P.gurneyi 9.3 1>8 j. 4 w „ 



The dimensions of the type in the British Museum given by Mr 

 bird 1 " 1 ' 6 "' P ' 43) alS ° mUCh eXC6ed th ° Se ° f the Zamb " oa "ga 



1 name this fine Owl after Mr. Gurney, to whom for many years 



