Typical Owls (Strigidae)

Rufescent Screech-owl (Otus ingens) - HBW 5, p. 179

French: Petit-duc de Salvin German: Salvineule Spanish: Autillo Pálido
Other common names: Salvin’s Screech-owl; Chapman’s Screech-owl (“aequatorialis”); Least Screech-owl (“minimus”)

Taxonomy: Scops ingens Salvin, 1897, Jima, Ecuador.
Relationships uncertain. Often considered to include O. colombianus as race; O. petersoni treated as conspecific by some authors. Forms described from E Ecuador (aequatorialis) and Bolivia (minimus) now thought to represent individual variation, synonymized with nominate. Two subspecies recognized.

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