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SCOPS-EARED OWL. 



LITTLE-HORNED OWL. 



Scops Aldrovandi, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Strix Scops, LINNAEUS. MONTAGU. 



" zorca, LATHAM. 



" Giu, LATHAM. 



Bubo Scops, JENYNS. 



Scops The Greek name of some kind of Owl. Aldrovandi Of 



Aldrovandus. 



THIS 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 Kipley, 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 Shilling-lee, 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. 



