Tytonidae

Phodilus badius parvus
Chasen, 1937: 216

Oriental Bay Owl
1 paratype

Paratype: ZMA 47867, adult female, Kampong Ajer Saga (Belitung, Indonesia), collected 3 Feb 1937 by F.J. Kuiper (coll. nr. 464), ex Van Marle (coll. nr. 867); wing 185, tail 76, bill to cere 20.4, tarsus 40.0.

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Additional information
The holotype is in the RMNH, no. 14021, adult female, Kampong Ajer Saga (Belitung), collected 5 Nov 1935 by F.J. Kuiper, then MZB 16315; wing 176. Chasen (1937, published Dec) lists 7 paratypes, all collected by Kuiper on Belitung in 1935-1937: one male (wing 171 mm) and 6 females (wing 172, 175, 176, 179, 180, and 180 mm), but does not explicitly say in what collections they are; as in Turnix suscitator kuiperi, Chasen's measurements are not quite comparable with ours. As the RMNH has only the holotype, the remaining paratypes are probably in the MZB and/or Kuala Lumpur. This subspecies is considerably smaller than nominate badius from Java (in a large sample of the latter, wing of male 180-190, female 180-196) or Sumatra (wing of three females 195-199, four males 182-192) (Chasen 1937; coll. ZMA).

Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.

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