SCOPS EARED OWL. 



RAPTORES. 



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STRIGID^E. 





THE SCOPS EARED OWL. 

 Scops Aldrovandi. 



Strix Scops, Little Horned Owl, MONT. Suppl. to Omith. Diet. 



Scops Eared Owl, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 71. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 57. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 92. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 91. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

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



Scops Aldrovandi, Scops Owl, 



Eared Owl, 

 Bubo Scops, 



Scops Aldrovandi, 

 Strix Scops, Hibou Scops, 



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 Colonel Montagu from specimens killed in Yorkshire, 

 which are still preserved, and other examples have oc- 

 curred. It is, however, so rare, that little has been ob- 



