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SCOPS ALDROVANDI. THE ALDROVANDINE 

 OWLET. 



SCOPS EARED OWL. LITTLE HORNED OWL. 



Strix Scops. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 129. 



Strix Scops. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 56. 



Little Horned Owl. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Hibou Scops. Strix Scops. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 103. 



Scops-eared Owl. Scops Aldrovandi. Selb. Illustr. L 92. 



Bubo Scops. Scops-eared Owl. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 91. 



Head with tufts of about twelve feathers ; plumage light grey 

 variegated with brown, and marhed with longitudinal brownish- 

 black lines and transverse undulations ; le^igth about eight inches. 



This pretty little Owl being of very rare occurrence in Britain, 

 I have never met with it alive, nor even examined a fresh spe- 

 cimen, so that the following description is necessarily taken 

 from preserved individuals, of which the sex had not been per- 

 haps accurately determined. 



Male. — The general form is not materially different from 

 that of the Great Eagle-Owl, although the wings and tarsi are 



