Barn-owls (Tytonidae)

Madagascar Red Owl (Tyto soumagnei) - HBW 5, p. 73

French: Effraie de Soumagne German: Malegasseneule Spanish: Lechuza Malgache
Other common names: Madagascar Grass-owl/Masked-owl, Soumagne’s Owl

Taxonomy: Heliodilus Soumagnei Milne-Edwards, 1878, Madagascar.
Close relative of T. alba group, of which it constitutes a small, dark, island form. Sufficiently differentiated, however, always to have been regarded as a separate species, and indeed sometimes a separate genus, Heliodilus. Monotypic.

Distribution: NE & E Madagascar.