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oad white patch, narrowly barred with black; remainder of under surface of body tawny-rufous, narrowly barred across with blackish brown including the thighs and under tail-coverts; fore neck with broad bands of white and chocolate-brown; under wing-coverts and axillars like the breast; quills below dusky brown, barred with yellowish buff, these bars broader toward the base of the inner web. Length, 444; wing, 330; tail, 190; culmen, 34; tarsus, 58.
"Of this fine owl Mr. Whitehead obtained several specimens. Its nearest ally is Syrnium sinense, but it is easily distinguished from that species by its rufescent under surface, with the absence of white bars."
Female.--In colors similar to the male, but size slightly greater. "Iris brown; eyelids dark carmine; bill and nails black." 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."
Family ALUCONIDAE.
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.
GRASS OWL.
Strix longimembris Jerdon, Madras Jour. , 10, 86. Strix candida Tickell, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal , 2, 572; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , 2, 308; Hand-List , 1, 302; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs , 2, 342; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List , 48. Aluco longimembris McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. , 3, sec. A, 283.
Cua-gong ta-l?-hib, Manila.
Batan ; Calamianes ; Cebu ; Luzon ; Mindanao ; Siquijor . Indian Peninsula, Burmese provinces, northern Australia, Fiji, Formosa, Celebes.
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