Ninox plateni Blasius (in litt.), Hartlaub, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen
(1899), 16, 271; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 47.
Mindoro (Platen).
Adult female.--Above reddish brown, slightly shaded with olive;
top and sides of head, hind neck, sides of neck, and mantle lighter,
pale reddish, and narrowly banded; on lower back and rump the bands
inconspicuous so that these parts appear nearly uniform; chin light;
throat-feathers light fawn-color with dark shaft-stripes, ground color
of chest and belly bright red-brown, with narrow blackish stripes;
bend of wing white; scapulars and greater wing-coverts with some
larger opaque white spots on outer webs; primaries with inner webs
uniform black, outer webs with broad dark brown and smaller pale
reddish band spots; on the tertials appear very inconspicuous, broad,
darker bands, and on the whole length of the edges of the outer webs,
pale fawn spots; tail-feathers with darker brownish bands of equal
width; under tail-coverts light fawn; inner wing-coverts light reddish
brown with darker spots. Legs light yellowish; iris yellow. Length,
250; wing, 169; tail, 80.
Male.--Differs only in the following that the bands on the lower
belly and thighs are on a lighter background; and the reddish brown
ground-color of chest and epigastrium is somewhat lighter. Wing, 168;
tail, 80.
Another female.--The brownish red of abdomen very fiery with irregular
and less distinct bands. Wing, 168 mm.; tail, 78. [33]
I doubt very much if this species is really distinct from Ninox
mindorensis; the size is nearly the same and specimens of the two do
not seem to have been actually compared.
Subfamily STRIGINÆ.