472 
SCOPS. 
Scops lopJiotes PucHERAN, Revue Mag. Zool. 1849. 8. 
Megascops Watsoni Gray, Handl. Birds I. 47. 
zorca SwAiNSON, Classif. Birds II. 217. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Oti 19. 
[Hemisp, or. 
Strix scops Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 219. — Buffon, PI. enlum. 436. — Nau- 
mann, Natg. Vögel Deutschl. I. 466. Tf. 43. Fig. 3. 
Strix zorca Cetti, Uccell. Sardin. 60. 
Scops ^/rfrovanrfi WiLLUGHBY , Ornith. 65. — Degland, Ornith. Eur. 1. 142. 
Strix carniolica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 290. 
Strix gui Scopoli, Annuus I. 19. 
Strix pulchella Pallas, Sibir. Reise I. 466. 
Strix Aldrovandi Fleming, brit. anim. 57, 
Strix ephialtes Savigny, Descr. Egypte 1809. 107. 
Strix backhamaena Pennant. — Vieillot, Encycl. métb. 1278. 
Bubo scops Boie, Oken's Isis 1822. 549. 
Scops carniolica Brehm, Vögel Deutschl. 126. 
Scops capensis Smith, SAfr. Quatert. Journ. I. 314. — Sharpe, Catal. 
Striges 52. 
Scops europaeus Lesson, Traité Ornith. 106. 
Ephialtes scops Keyserling et Blasius, Wirbeith. Eur. 33. — Gould, Birds 
Eur. Tb. 41. 
Otus scops Schlegel, Revue crit. 16. 
Scops su7iia, Sc. pennata Hodgson, as. Research. XIX. 175. 
Scops malayanus Hay, Madr. Journ. XIII. 147. — Sharpe, Catal. Striges 58. 
Ephialtes spilocephalus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1846. 8. 
Otus japonicus, 0. africanus Schlegel, Fauna japon. Tb. 9. 
Scops senegalensis Swainson, Birds WAfr. I. 127. 
Ephialtes senegalensis La yard, Birds SAfr. 41. 
Ephialtes longipennis, E. latipennis Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 7. 
Scops longipennis , Sc. latipennis Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 225. 
Scops (Acnemis) gymnopodus Gray. — Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. 
IV. 225. 
Scops minor, Sc, minuta j Sc. rupestris, Sc. rufescens Brehm, Naumannia 
1855. 270. 
Scops fazoglensis Pz. Paul Würtbg. 
Ephialtes sunia Horsfield et Moore, Catal. Birds EInd. Cp. I. 70. 
Ephialtes backhamaena Blyth, Ibis 1863. 27. 
Ephialtes pennatus Wallace, Ibis 1868. 19. — Sharpe, Catal. Striges 53. 
Scops zorca asiaticus, africanus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Oti 20. 
Acnemis gymnopodus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 46. 
Scops giu, Sc. stictonotus , Sc. rufipennis, Sc. spilocephalus , Sc. Brucei, Sc. 
megalota Sharpe, Catal. Striges 47 — 69. 
Kleine Ohreule, Berg-, Baum-, Waldohreule. — Duo Zorca. — Asiola. — 
Chitta Gool. — Chugad kusial, Kunga Kusial. — Klossos, Chioni. — 
Masoof. 
SCOPS (Ardeidae. — axo^» nom. propr.) Möhring, Avium Gener. 1752. — Gray, 
Genera Birds 1845. IIL 553. = Grus Lin. 
Bill the length of the head, straight, the sides compressed, the apical part 
of the culmen slightly curved to the tips, which are equal in the length and the 
gonys long and slightly advancing upwards; the nostrils placed in a nasal 
groove, which reaches beyond the middle of the bill, with the opening in a longi- 
tudinal slit. Wings long, with the third and fourth quills the longest and the 
tertials lengthened and pendent. Tail rather short. Tarsi long and slender, and 
covered with transverse scales. Toes moderate, slender and covered above with 
transverse scales, the lateral toes equal, the outer united at the base to the middle 
toe and the hind toe very short and elevated, 
paradisea, vipio, virgo Gray vide Grus. 
