Bubo cinerascens Guérin-Méneville, 1843

LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Dowsett (1993); Aimassi & Levi (1993); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002c); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — ISFC 039; MCCI 3289, 3290; SMF 12444, 12448.

FIELD DATA. — eBird; GBIF; WABD.

STATUS. — Resident.

REMARK. — Sometimes treated as conspecific with B. africanus Temminck, 1821, which differs in plumage and eyes colour and it is not known to interbreed with B. cinerascens where ranges overlap (del Hoyo & Collar 2014).