Southern White-faced Owl

Here the details of the Southern White-faced Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ptilopsis granti
Protonym:  Pisorhina leucotis granti Orn.Monatsb. 18 p.148
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Ptilopsis
Taxonomy Code:  swfowl1
Type Locality:  South-West Africa.
Author:  Kollibay
Publish Year:  1910
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTILOPSIS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern White-faced Owl P. leucotis) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; οψις opsis  face; "Subgenus. Ptilopsis, Kp.,  Ephialtes, Bp.  Schnabel vorgestreckt, mit sehr langen Zügelfedern, die ihn ganz verstecken. Erste Schwinge sehr lang, an der Spitze ausgeschitten und unbedeutend länger als die 2te und 3te. Fusswurzel dicht, Zehen zuweilen schwach befiedert.   6. Scops leucotis, Sw.  7. Scops megalotis, G. Gray." (Kaup 1851).  
Var. Ptilopsus.
Synon. Ephialtes.

granti
● William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924) English ornithologist at BMNH 1882-1918 (subsp. Acanthisitta chloris, subsp. Accipiter nisus, subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, syn. Alopecoenas beccarii solomonensis, subsp. Camaroptera chloronota, Horizocerus, syn. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Melaenornis pallida parvus, subsp. Microptilotis mimikae, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, syn. Neocossyphus poensis praepectoralis, Ninox, syn. Oriolus szalayi, syn. Pellorneum ruficeps olivaceum, Penelope, subsp. Ptiloprora plumbea, Ptilopsis, subsp. Rhipidura rufifrons (ex Rhipidura harterti Ogilvie-Grant), subsp. Sericornis spilodera, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris, Sula).
● Capt. Claude Henry Baxter Grant (1878-1958) British ornithologist at BMNH 1898-1903, 1932-1958, in East Africa 1916-1932 (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Crithagra mozambica, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, syn. Malimbus malimbicus, subsp. Phoeniculus damarensis, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus minor, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, subsp. Treron delalandii).
● Lt.-Col. James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) British Army, explorer with Speke in East Africa 1860-1863 (syn. Guttera pucherani).
● Robert Grant (1854-1923) Scottish miner and immigrant to Australia 1879, taxidermist at Australian Mus. 1887-1917, collector, explorer (subsp. Paradisaea raggiana).