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and crissum; scapulars, back, rump, and wing-coverts mouse-gray, lus¬ 
trous in a certain,light; wing-quills and upper tai1-coverts dark 
mouse ^ray, with, subdued reflections of violet, coppery, and green; 
rectrices lustrous golden green above, smoke-gray below; flanks, ax- 
illars, and lining of wings clear gray. An adult make in fresh 
plumage, shot by Dr. Paul C. Freer, October 7, 1906, only differs from 
the type in being appreciably darker. The sexes are practically 
alike in size and color. 
Colors of soft parts .- Two mated pairs, about to breed, had the 
soft parts colored exactly alike, January 21, 1906: Iris red; eye¬ 
lids and feet vinaceous; claws dusky purplish gray; bare space sur¬ 
rounding eye, pale plumbeous; bill pale bluish gray at tip, darker - 
plumbeous - at base. Testicles functionally enlarged. 
Measurements of two adult males (type and topotype, measured 
fresh by the author).- Total length, 420, 430; alar expanse, 735, 
750; wing, 240, 240; tail 156, 160; culmen (chord) 20,20; tarsus, 
32,34; middle toe with claw, 46, 49. 
Otus steerei new species 
Tumindao Seops Owl. 
Type .- Ho. 210752, U.S.National Museum. Adult male. Collected 
by Edgar A. Hearns, October 13, 1906, on Tumindao Island, off Sitanki 
Island, Philippine Islands. 
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Characters.- Very similar to the $elebesian Otus menadensis , 
from which it may be distinguished by being larger, with upper parts 
darker, with more of the black rerniculations; black centers to the 
feathers of the underparts much less conspicuous; feathers of tarsus 
more heavily cross-barred with blackish. Of the Philippine species 
it is most closely related to Otus from Culion Id. 
