Flores Scops-Owl

SCI Name:  Otus alfredi
Protonym:  Pisorhina alfredi Novit.Zool. 4 p.527
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Otus
Taxonomy Code:  flsowl1
Type Locality:  Repok Mts., above 3500 feet, Flores.
Author:  Hartert, E
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

OTUS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Indian Scops Owl O. bakkamoena) L. otus  small eared owl  < Gr. ωτος ōtos  eared owl; "III.  OTUS BAKKAMOENA.  The Little Horn Owl.   THIS elegant species is found in Ceylon, is called there Bakkamoena, and is a scarce species even in that island.   It is represented of its natural size. The irides are scarlet: the horns take their origin from the base of the bill, and point to the sides of the head: on their inner side they are dusky, on their exterior white.  The bill is dusky, surrounded with long bristles: the circle of feathers round the eyes is of a very pale ash-color: the external circle of a yellowish brown.  The head of a deep ash-color: the back dusky: coverts of the wings grey, marked with narrow lines of black, pointing downwards: the quil feathers regularly barred with black and white: the breast buff-colored, marked with small sagittal black spots: the legs feathered half way down: the naked part of a reddish yellow." (Pennant 1769); "Otus Pennant, Indian Zool., 1769, p. 3. Type, by monotypy, Otus bakkamoena Pennant." (Peters 1940, IV, 86).  
Var. Otis.   
Synon. Acnemis, Athenoptera, Ephialtes, Gymnoscops, Heteroscops, Lempijius, Pisorhina, Scops, Scototheres, Zorca.

otus
L. otus  eared owl  < Gr. ωτος ōtos  eared owl; "42. STRIX.  ...  Otus.  4. S. capite auriculato pennis senis. Faun. svec. 47.  Otus s. Asio. Bell. av. 25. 6. Aldr. orn. 1. 8. c. 3. Will. ornith. 64. t. 12. Raj. av. 25. Frisch. av. t. 99. Alb. av. 2.. p. 10. t. 10.  Habitat in Europa.  Cristæ auritæ albidæ fasciis sex fuscis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Asio).

alfredi
● Prof. Alfred Newton (1829-1907) British ornithologist (Bradypterus, syn. Tylas eduardi).
● Alfred William Vincent (1904-2000) English ornithologist, brother of Col. Jack Vincent (subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea).
● Alfred Henry Ebsworth White (1901-1964) Australian field-naturalist, son of collector Henry L. White (syn. Lacustroica whitei).
● Alfred Hart Everett (1848-1898) English ornithologist, explorer, collector in the East Indies (Otus).
● Admiral Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900) 3^rd Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (reigned 1893-1900), Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster and Earl of Kent, second son of Queen Victoria (syn. Petrochelidon spilodera).
● Sir Alfred Sharpe (1853-1935) British adventurer, big-game hunter, Consul-General and Commissioner for British Central Africa 1896-1907, Gov. of Nyasaland 1907-1910 (subsp. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus, syn. Tachymarptis aequatorialis).
● Alfred Henri Edme Œillet des Murs (b. 1842) French JP, son of ornithologist Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Psarocolius angustifrons).
● Antoine-Alfred Marche (1844-1898) French naturalist, explorer, collector in West Africa, the Philippines, and the Marianas (subsp. Todiramphus winchelli).