The Ryūkyū Scops-owl or Elegant Scops-owl (Otus elegans) is a small rufous-brown owl with a brown face disc and a cinnamon facial ruff. It is found on the Nansei Shoto islands, southern Japan, on Lanyu Island, off south-east Taiwan, and on the Batanes and Babuyan islands off northern Luzon, Philippines in semi-tropical evergreen forest.