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SCOPS-EARED OWL. 
LITTLE-HORNED OWL. 
Scops Aldrovandi, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Strix Scops, Linnzus. Monracu. 
“=. gorca, LATHAM. 
“« Gi, LATHAM, 
Bubo Scops, JENYNS, 
Scops—The Greek name of some kind of Owl. Aldrovandi—Of 
Aldrovandus. 
Tuts little Owl is a native of the temperate parts of each 
of the four quarters of the globe. In Europe, it occurs 
plentifully in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 
and other countries. In Holland it is rare. 
In Yorkshire, a specimen of this kind was recorded by J. 
S. Foljambe, Esq., to have formerly occurred. Another was 
shot near Wetherby, in the spring of 1805; another near 
York; one near Driffield, in 1839; and one at Boynton, Sir 
George Strickland’s, near Bridlington, in July, 1832; one at 
Bossal, then the residence of Captain Beaumont, near York; 
one near Eshton Hall; and four, two old birds and two 
young ones, at Ripley, Sir William Ingleby’s, which were for 
a fortnight nailed up to a house. Another is said to have 
been shot at Womersley, one of the seats of Lord Hawke; 
one in Sussex, at Shillinglee, the seat of Lord Winterton; 
one near Brill, in Buckinghamshire, in 1833; one in the 
Island of Tresco, one of the Scilly Islands, in April, 1847. 
Another was caught near London; and one in Worcestershire, 
near Fladbury; and two were shot near Audley End, in 
Essex, the seat of Lord Braybrooke. It is said to have bred 
in Castle Eden Dene, in the county of Durham, and does so 
near the River Oykel, in Sutherlandshire. 
