206. PSEUDOPTYNX PHILIPPENSIS Kaup.
LUZON HORNED OWL.
- Pseudoptynx philippensis Kaup, Cont. Orn. (1852), 117.
- Bubo philippinensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 43.
- Pseudoptynx philippensis Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pt. 2, 144, pl. 25, fig. 2; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 284; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46.
- Bubo philippensis Grant, Ibis (1894), 503.
Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor).
“Adult (type of species).—Above tawny-rufous, the feathers mesially dark brown, giving a closely striped appearance; the wing-coverts rather darker, some of the scapulars and greater-coverts externally creamy buff, forming a kind of longitudinal bar down the latter; entire head and auricular-tufts colored like the back, but somewhat more narrowly streaked; quills dull brown, tipped with fulvous, more plainly on the secondaries, the primaries spotted on the outer and barred on the inner web with pale tawny-rufous, the bars more distinct on the secondaries; tail-feathers dull brown, tipped with fulvous and crossed with a few bars of tawny-buff, the middle feathers nearly uniform, with only one bar and indications of a second, the bars gradually increasing in number toward the outer tail-feather, which has five bars on the inner web, and is externally tawny-buff; lores white, the anterior bristles black toward tip; sides of face tawny, with white shafts; facial disk tawny, with central streaks of brown to the feathers, which are fulvous at base; under surface of body buffy white, longitudinally streaked with dark brown centers to the feathers, each mesial streak having a narrow edging of rufous on each side, and decreasing in width toward the abdomen and under tail-coverts, the tarsal feathers entirely uniform; under wing-coverts buffy white, the outermost longitudinally spotted with dark brown, the greater series whitish at base, brown at tip, resembling the inner lining of the wing. Bill horn-blue at base, yellow at tip; feet fleshy brown, claws light horn-color. Length, 546; auricular-tufts, 33; culmen, 58; wing, 356; tail, 178; tarsus, 68.” (Sharpe.)
An adult male was taken near Irisan, Benguet Province, Luzon. Iris yellow; bill pale horn-blue, cere similar but darker; feet pale dingy blue; nails blackish. Length, 483; wing, 350; tail, 185; culmen from base, 47; tarsus, 77.
207. PSEUDOPTYNX GURNEYI Tweeddale.
GURNEY’S HORNED OWL.
- Pseudoptynx gurneyi Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 940, pl. 58; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 284; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46.