120 STRIGIDA. 
RAPTORES. ~ STRIGID 4. 
THE SCOPS EARED OWL. 
Scops Aldrovandt. 
Strix Scops, Little Horned Owl, Monr. Suppl. to Ornith. Dict. 
Bae Scops Eared Owl, Burwick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 71. 
Scops Aldrovandi, Scops Owl, Fem. Brit. An. p. 57. 
o 5 » Hared Owl, SEvBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 92. 
Bubo Scops, : oH “5 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 91.. 
Scops Aldrovandi, 4, 5 »»  GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 
Strix Scops, Eibou Scops, TEemm. Man. d’Orith. vol. i. p. 103. 
Scors. 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. 
Turs 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- 
