144 A HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN BIRDS. 
Genus SCOPS. 
SCOPS-EARMED OWL. * 
Scops giu (Sco). 
Adult : Above gveyish-brown, in places washed with buffish 
or chestnut, streaked with black and vermiculated with dark 
brown ; tail-feathers barred with black or dark brown and pale 
brown; 20 operculum over the ear; beneath grey, whitish on chin, 
otherwise tinged with orange buff, finely vermiculated with 
brown and conspicuously streaked with dark brown; bill 
black; feet dare; claws pale at bases with black tips ; irides 
bright yellow. Length 7 to 7:5 inches; culmen 0°7: wing 5°75 
toxo; tall 2°75 < tarsus 1. 
Young: Appear more rufous than adults, otherwise are 
very similar. 
Distribution: Inhabits the temperate portions of Europe, 
Western Asia and Northern Africa ; of casual occurrence only 
in the British Isles. 
Habitat: Groves, gardens, densely wooded ravines, &c. 
Genus BUBO. 
EFAGLE-OWL. 7 
Bubo ignavus forst. 
Adult: Adove yellowish rufous-brown, becoming more 
rufous towards tail, and Jlotched and mottled throughout zwth 
dark brown; feathers of crown black with rufous margins ; 
elongated ear tufts very large, wing-quills blackish ; rectrices pale 
rufous, both being regularly barred ; facial disc incomplete; ears 
not furnished with an operculum ; feathers at base of bill and 
chin white, the former tipped with white ; under parts ferru- 
ginous-buff ; centres of feathers more or less broadly streaked, 
and vermiculated with dark brown; biil and claws blackish ; 
irides orange. Length 24 to 26 inches; culmen 1°53 wing 16°5 
to 16°55 tail TS 5 tarsus<2°75: 
Female : Considerably larger than the male. 
Nestling: “In the older nestlings described by Linnezeus, 
the bill was black; irides saffron-yellow ; pupil bluish-black ; 
