420 



PKEYING BIRDS — RAPTORES. 



Gexus scops, Savigny. 



Scops, Savigny, Hist. Nat. (I'Eyyptc, I. 1809, 105. 



Gen. Char. Size small, ear-tufts cunspiciioiis. Facial disk iinperfoet in front ; bill 

 short, nearly covered by jn-ojecting feathers ; wings long ; tail rather short, frequently 



cui'vcil inwards ; tarsi rather long, more or less fully covered with short feathers; those on 

 the toes hair-like. 



ALotit twenty-five specie.s of Scojis are kiiowu. 



Scops asio, LiNNJEus. 



THE MOTTLED SCREECH-OWL. 



Strix asio, LiNN.T.us, Syst. Nat. I. ITOn, 1.12 (red form). — Bubo nsin, AiinnnON, Birds 

 Amer. oct. ed. I. 147; jd. 40. — Pr. Max. Cab. .Jour. 1858, 2.3. — k'cops asio, "Bon \- 

 PAKTE, Comp. List, 6. — Cassik, P. R. Rep. Birds, IX. 51. — IIeekmann, X. vi. 35. 

 — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of \V. T. 155. 



Sirix mcvia, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 1788, 287. — Wilson, Am. Orn. V. 83; pi. 42, f. 

 1 ; III. 17; pi. 19, f. 1. — Audubon, Birds Amer. pi. 97. — Nuttall, Man. I. 125, 

 127. 



? Scops McCallii, Cassin, Birds of Cal. and Texa.s, I. 1854, 180. In. P. R. Rep. Birds, IX. 

 52. In. Mex. Bound. Rep. II. iii. 4 ; pi. 1. 



Sp. Char. Above pale ashy-brown, with streak of brownish-blaek, and irregular mot- 

 tlings of the same mixed with cinereous. Beneath asliy- white witli brownishddack stripes, 

 and transverse lines of the same ; face, throat, and tarsi ashy-white, irregularly lined and 



