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STRIGINiG* SCOPS. 
and from tlie latter in having the wings longer^ the tarsi 
more slender, and the toes more or less bare. Bill short, 
stout, with its upper outline decurved from the base, the 
lower convex, the tip prolonged, decurved, acute. Nostrils i 
roundish. Eyes very large. Conch elliptical, simple, about ] 
a third of the height of the head, the latter very large, I 
roundish ; neck short ; body slender. Legs rather short ; i 
tarsi slender, feathered ; toes short, bare, reticulate, at the j 
end scutellate ; claws long, slightly curved, compressed, | 
tapering, acute. Plumage full, soft ; two elongated tufts on I 
the head ; facial disks incomplete above the eyes ; ruif in- ; 
conspicuous and incomplete ; feathers generally ovato-oblong; ;| 
wings long, with the third quill longest ; tail short, slightly 'I 
rounded. 
24. Scops Aldrovandi. Aldrovandine Owlet. I 
Head with tufts of about twelve feathers ; plumage light t| 
grey variegated with brown, and marked with longitudinal 1 
brownish-black lines and transverse undulations ; a large ! 
whitish spot on the outer scapulars ; primary quills with i 
conspicuous white spots between the brown bands on the ; 
outer web. 
Male, 7-J; ...? 1, |j. 
Of very rare occurrence in England, and supposed to be s 
there merely migratory. Said to be common in the southern ; 
parts of the continent, and to occur in Africa as well as Asia. 
Scops Eared Owl. Little Horned Owl. 
Strix Scops, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 129. — Strix Scops, Temm. 
Man. d^Ornith, i. 103. — Scops Aldrovandi, Aldrovandine 
Owlet, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 422. 
GENUS XIV. BUBO. EAGLE-OV^L. 
Bill short, robust, compressed toward the end ; upper man- 
dible with its outline decurved from the base, the tip sub- 
trigonal, decurved, acute ; lower mandible with the angle 
wide, the dorsal line short and slightly convex, the edges 
decurved at the end, with a sinus close to the abrupt tip. 
Mouth very wide ; tongue short, oblong, sagittate and papil- 
late at the base, its tip rounded and retuse ; oesophagus very 
wide, without crop ; proventriculus dilated below ; stomach 
large, roundish, very thin, its inner surface smooth and soft ; 
