Typical Owls (Strigidae)

Luzon Scops-owl (Otus longicornis) - HBW 5, p. 160

French: Petit-duc longicorne German: Luzoneule Spanish: Autillo de Luzón
Other common names: Luzon Slender-billed Scops-owl

Taxonomy: Scops longicornis Ogilvie-Grant, 1894, mountains of northern Luzon.
Forms part of assemblage referred to as subgenus Otus. Probably forms superspecies with O. mirus. Previously treated as race of O. scops or O. spilocephalus, but differs from both in morphology and apparently in vocalizations. Monotypic.

Distribution: Luzon, in N Philippines.