OWLS 33 5 



SCOPS OWL. Scops giu (Scopoli). Length, 7-5 in.; 

 wing, 5*9 in. ; tarsus, 0*9 in. 



Hah. Southern Europe; Western Asia; Northern 

 Africa. 



Two, Yorkshire (one near Weatherby), spring 1805 : Mon- 

 tagu, " Orn. Diet. Suppl.," 1813. 

 One, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, June 182*4: Stevenson, "Birds 



of Norfolk," vol. i. p. 43. 

 One near London, prior to 1833: Selby, " Illus. Brit. Orn.," 



vol. i. p. 93. 

 One, Brill, Bucks, spring 1833: Mathews, Zool, 1849, p. 



2596. 

 Two, Audley End, Essex, prior to Nov. 1837 : Yarrell, Mag. 



Nat. Hist, iii. p. 100, and "Hist. Brit. Birds." 

 One, Loughcrew, Meath, prior to 1837: Thompson, "Nat. 



Hist. Irel. (Birds)," i. p. 85. 

 Two, Yarmouth, and two near Norwich : Gurney and Fisher, 



Zool, 1846, p. 1304. 

 One, Scilly, April 11, 1847: Rodd, Zool, 1847, p. 1773, 



and " Birds of Cornwall." Figured in Gould's " Birds 



of Great Britain." 

 One, Killiane, Wexford, April 1847: Poole, Zool, 1848, 



p. 2019. 

 One, Fladbury, Worcestershire: Hastings, "Nat. Hist. 



Worcester," p. 65. 

 One near Golspie, Sutherland, May 1854 : Gray, " Birds of 



West of Scotland," p. 56. 

 One, Ashdown, Berks, 1858 : Gould, " Birds of Great Britain." 



This perhaps is the specimen said to have been taken 



at Kingston Lisle in 1858 (Clark Kennedy, " Birds of 



Berks and Bucks," p. 166). 

 One, beneath the lighthouse at Cromer, Nov. 27, 1861 : 



Stevenson, " Birds of Norfolk," vol. i. p. 43. 

 One, Egton Bridge, near Whitby, 1865: Clarke, "Birds of 



Yorkshire," p. 52. 

 One near Pembroke, spring 1868 : Dix, Zool, 1869, p. 1671. 



