SCOPS EARED OWL. 



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RAPTORES. 



STRIGID^. 



THE SCOPS EARED OWL. 



Strix Scops, Little Horned Owl, Mont. Suppl. to Ornith. Diet. 



„ ,, Scops Eared Owl, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 71. 



Scops Aldrovandi, Scops Owl, 



,, ,, ,, Eared Owl, 



Bubo Scops, ,, ,, ,, 



Scops Aldrovandi, ,, ,, ,, 

 Strix Scops, Hibou Scops, 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 57. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornitli. vol. i. p. 92. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 91. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 

 Tehm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 103. 



Scops. Generic Characters. — Head furnished with two tufts of feathers. 

 Beak curved from the base. The nostrils round. Facial disk incomplete, not 

 extending over the forehead ; auditory conch small, and without an operculum. 

 Wings long, reaching to the end of the tail; the third quill-feather generally 

 the longest. Legs rather long, feathered to the junction of the toes ; the toes 

 naked ; claws curved and sharp. 



This little tufted Owl, one of the smallest of the family 

 found in this country, was first noticed as a British Bird by 



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