"Adult (type of species).--Everywhere light rufous-fawn, with separate vermiculations of dull blackish, a little coarser on the auricular-tufts and on the wing-coverts, almost obsolete on the under surface of body; tarsal feathers fulvous, slightly mottled with rufous; greater and primary wing-coverts rufous-fawn color, very coarsely and thickly vermiculated with blackish, forming five or six indistinct bars; quills blackish, with six or seven bars of fawn-color, very distinct on the outer primaries, but gradually becoming more and more obscured with blackish frecklings till the bands are obsolete on the secondaries; tail blackish, with six or seven bars of fawn-color, more or less obscured with frecklings of blackish, which are plentifully distributed over the whole tail; under wing-coverts uniform fulvous; the under surface of the wing ashy brown, with bands of fulvous. Bill pale horn-color, yellowish on under mandible; feet yellowish brown. Length, 279; culmen, 33; auricular tufts, 37; wing, 165; tail, 89; tarsus, 37." (Sharpe.) The type, secured by Cuming in "Manila," is the only known specimen. 210. OTUS EVERETTI (Tweeddale). EVERETT'S SCREECH OWL. Scops everetti Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 492; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 287. Otus everetti McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46. Basilan (Everett); Mindanao (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen); Samar (Steere Exp.). Description.--"May be described as being a large form of Scops [=Otus] lempiji as it occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rich brown coloring of the Javan species; the same broad dark brown mark in the form of a parallelogram on the head and nape; the same pale colored forehead, stripe above each eye and round the nape, and the broad dark stripe leading from behind the eye, and including most of the ear-tufts; there are no pale uniform tawny or fulvous scapulars. Underneath, the markings differ from those of the Javan bird by being more confused, and by the absence of regular dark brown cross-markings on the abdominal plumes. The general coloring of the under surface is of a ruddier brown. Male: 'Iris deep brown; feet whitish.' (Everett.) Wing, 165; tail, 89; tarsus, 30; culmen, 16. Female: 'Iris warm brown; bill pale greenish leaden, nearly white; feet whitish gray; claws dark gray.' (Everett.) Wing, 171; tail, 92; tarsus, 30; culmen, 17." (Tweeddale.) "A single male specimen, secured in Palawan, measured 203 in length; wing, 137; tail, 73; culmen, 15; tarsus, 29; middle toe and claw, 26. Bill pale horn, darkest at base; feet dirty white; nails black at tip, gray at base; food insects. This specimen started within a meter of the head of the collector, and flew less than three meters before alighting.