Female.—In colors similar to the male, but size slightly greater. “Iris brown; eyelids dark carmine; bill and nails black.” (Celestino.) Length, 460; wing, 340; tail, 200; culmen from base, 39; tarsus, 50.
“We heard a large owl, in all probability of this species, hooting at night in the Calamianes Islands; a single specimen was secured in Palawan; it measured, 432 in length; wing, 202; tail, 186; culmen, 26; tarsus, 61; middle toe with claw, 48.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Family ALUCONIDÆ.
Middle toe pectinate; ruff around eyes and across throat fully developed; primaries much longer than secondaries; proximal half of tarsus fully feathered, distal half covered with much shorter, more hair-like plumes; toes sparsely covered with hairs; plumage very soft and fluffy.
Genus ALUCO Fleming, 1822.
Characters same as those given for the Family.
232. ALUCO LONGIMEMBRIS (Jerdon).
GRASS OWL.
- Strix longimembris Jerdon, Madras Jour. (1839), 10, 86.
- Strix candida (not of Latham, 1801) Tickell, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1833), 2, 572; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 308; Hand-List (1899), 1, 302; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 342; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 48.
- Aluco longimembris McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1908), 3, sec. A, 283.
Cua-gong ta-lá-hib, Manila.