Adult male, light phase; type.--Lower parts dark cinnamon finely mottled with brown and white, a few feathers on throat and breast with dark brown shaft-stripes or spots; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts extensively white with very little cinnamon and the brown mostly reduced to fine speckles; thighs and tarsi cinnamon with cross-lines of dark brown; upper parts dark rufous finely mottled with blackish brown, producing a rather uniform coloration; lores, continuous with a line above eyes, white; tips of nasal and loral bristles dusky brown or cinnamon, the longest about 20 mm.; modified feathers of ear-coverts and below eye finely speckled with white and dark brown; behind this the incomplete ruff forms a conspicuous rufous band along side of head, but most of the feathers tipped with dusky brown; feathers of ear-tufts dark rufous with irregular blackish spots toward tips; wing-coverts and scapulars about same as back, some of the latter with a large white area on outer web; exposed surface of quills and tail similar and a little lighter than back; tail crossed by several irregular lighter bars; quills dusky brown; outer webs of outer primaries notched with pale cinnamon; inner webs of quills crossed by pale cinnamon bars which become very wide on secondaries; tarsi feathered nearly to toes. Bill, feet, and nails brown, the feet with a slight green wash; iris bright yellow. Length, 216; wing, 169; tail, 85; culmen, 21; tarsus, 31; middle toe with claw, 29. Female.--In every way similar to the male. Length, 203; wing, 164; tail, 81; culmen, 21; tarsus, 31; middle toe with claw, 28. In the red phase, the white markings, except a few bars and freckles on abdomen and flanks, are replaced by rufous. 219. OTUS ROMBLONIS McGregor. ROMBLON SCREECH OWL. Otus romblonis McGregor, Publ. Gov. Labs. Manila (1905), 25, 12; Phil. Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 768; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46. Banton (Celestino); Romblon (McGregor). Adult female, type.--Feathers of upper parts rufous with median black stripes on head, neck, and back, heaviest on head; ear-tufts colored like neck and inconspicuous; white spots on scapulars washed with pale fulvous; lower parts and wings patterned as in O. cuyensis but more rufescent; black band on side of head narrower and less marked than in cuyensis. Length, 222; wing, 158; tail, 76; tarsus, 29; middle toe with claw, 28. This species is similar to Otus cuyensis from which it differs in having shorter wings and tail. 220. OTUS BOHOLENSIS McGregor. BOHOL SCREECH OWL. Otus boholensis McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 323. Bohol (McGregor).