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Woods (DMNH). and Herman Mays and Lauren Hancock 
(CMC) for loaning specimens from their respective 
institutions for examination. We thank Dries Van Nieu- 
wenhuyse and D. H. Johnson (Global Owl Project) for help 
in creating Fig. 3. We thank Tim MeSweeny (HMNS) for 
help in working with specimens and D. H. Johnson and A. 
E. Sieradzki (Global Owl Project), and Travis Rosenberry 
(The Peregrine Fund) for helping obtain obscure published 
descriptions of the type specimens. DMB dedicates his 
contribution of this manuscript to Keith Arnold, who 
mentored him in owl taxonomy during the early years of his 
graduate work. HCM dedicates his contribution to the late 
Pedro Alviolu III. a colleague and a mentor at the 
University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB). This 
work was funded by Ihc Texas Southern University (TSU) 
Seed Grant Program, TSU Graduate School, and the TSU 
University Research Center (URC)-NASA Center for 
Bionanotechnology and Environmental Research (CBER)- 
NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX0BA47A. This man¬ 
uscript was significantly improved through the comments 
made by G. A. Proudfoot and C. E. Braun. 
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