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THE SCOPS-EARED OWL. 



Soops Aldrovatidi WILLOUGHBY 



PLATE XXXIII. 



Scops Aldrovandi, Willoughby. Strix scops, Linnaeus. 

 Hibou scops, Temminck. Scops-eared Owl of British 

 ornithologists. 



THE Scops eared Owl is a very rare British 

 visitant, being principally found in the southern 

 districts of Europe, and even there it is migratory, 

 appearing only in the summer months, and in 

 France arriving and departing with the swallow. 

 The instances of its capture in Britain are not 

 very well recorded. There is a specimen in the 

 Foljambe collection, which was believed to be shot 

 in Yorkshire ; Mr Fothergill of York has another, 

 which was shot in the spring of 1805, near 

 Weatherby, in the same county;* Mr Selby gives 

 his representation from a specimen said to be 

 killed in the vicinity of London, and mentions in 

 a note having seen a specimen killed near York, in 

 the possession of Mr Bewick,t and it is stated to 



* Montague Orn. Diet. Supp, App. 

 f British Ornith. i. p. 93. 



