Scops fuliginosa Sharpe, Ibis (1888), 197; Hand-List (1899),
1, 287.
Scops everetti Whitehead, Ibis (1893), 44.
Otus fuliginosus McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 46.
Palawan (Whitehead).
Diagnosis.--Similar to Otus umbratilis but much smaller, and entirely
rich brown; vermiculated and spotted as in typical Otus but auricular
region uniform rufous-brown; and with frontal and cervical bands pale
and obsolete. [28]
Whitehead, who collected the type, refers this species to Scops
(=Otus) everetti and says: "I find that Mr. Sharpe has not much faith
in his Scops fuliginosa, which in all probability is only the young
of S. everetti." Sharpe retains the species in his "Hand-List" and
therefore it is given here.