Scops megalotis Gray, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 45; Sharpe,
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 69; Hand-List (1899), 1, 285.
Lempijius ? megalotis Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 145,
pl. 25, fig. 3.
Otus megalotis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46.
Luzon (Cuming).
"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.