Sunda Scops-Owl

SCI Name:  Otus lempiji
Protonym:  Srix Lempiji Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.140
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Otus
Taxonomy Code:  susowl2
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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).

lempiji
Javanese name Lempi ji for the Sunda Scops Owl (Otus).

SUBSPECIES

Sunda Scops-Owl (condorensis)
SCI Name: Otus lempiji condorensis
condorensis
Pulo Condor I. (= Pulau Kondor = Côn Son), former British and then French trading station off the mouths of the Mekong, Cochinchina (= southern Vietnam).

Sunda Scops-Owl (lempiji)
SCI Name: Otus lempiji lempiji
lempiji
Javanese name Lempi ji for the Sunda Scops Owl (Otus).

Sunda Scops-Owl (hypnodes)
SCI Name: Otus lempiji hypnodes
hypnodes
Gr. ὑπνος hupnos sleep; ωδη ōdē song, dirge.

Sunda Scops-Owl (lemurum)
SCI Name: Otus lempiji lemurum
lemurum
L. lemurum  of the spirits  < lemures  ghosts, spirits, spectres.
● Cerro de Animas (Spanish animas  spirits), Maldonado, Uruguay (subsp. Myiothlypis leucoblephara).

Sunda Scops-Owl (kangeanus)
SCI Name: Otus lempiji kangeanus
kangeana / kangeanensis / kangeangensis / kangkeangensis / kangeanus
Kangean I., Java Sea, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.