. British birds with their nests and eggs . ys wide awakeand ready for food, and constantly uttering a very melancholy and unpleasantcry. One of these birds, through the kindness of Lord Lilford, is now in thewriters collection, mounted in a very life-like and characteristic attitude.* The prevailing colours of the Hawk-Owls pkimage are blackish-brown, spottedand barred with white. The head, which is large and very flat on the top, isblackish-brown, profusely speckled with small white spots; space round the eyewhitish, broadly edged with blackish ; either side of nape blackish, with a largecen
. British birds with their nests and eggs . ys wide awakeand ready for food, and constantly uttering a very melancholy and unpleasantcry. One of these birds, through the kindness of Lord Lilford, is now in thewriters collection, mounted in a very life-like and characteristic attitude.* The prevailing colours of the Hawk-Owls pkimage are blackish-brown, spottedand barred with white. The head, which is large and very flat on the top, isblackish-brown, profusely speckled with small white spots; space round the eyewhitish, broadly edged with blackish ; either side of nape blackish, with a largecentral white spot; a ring of white spots across the top of the back, which isblackish, some of the feathers edged with white; tail blackish-browu, with numer-ous narrow bands of white, and tipped with white; patches of Avhite on theshoulders ; wings blackish, barred and blotched with white; upper part of breastalmost entirely Avhite; remaining under parts whitish, with numerous narrow bars * Mr. Frohawks illustration is taken from this Scops-Owl i f Scops-Owl. «3 of blackisli-browii : tarsi densely feathered; bill pale yellow; iridcs bright straw-yellow; claws black. Length 15 inches to 16 inches. Young birds resemble the old ; but llic plmiiage is more fluffy, and thevarious markings more faintly indicated. Family—S TRIGID^E. Scops-OwL. Scops giu, Scop. THIS pretty little tufted Owl, the smallest species on the British list, is aregular summer visitor to the southern parts of Europe, and has beencaptured at large as an accidental visitor to this couutrj^ about a score of times,chiefly in the southern counties, has occurred twice in Ireland, and only once inScotland. It has occurred at all seasons of the 3ear. As it is frequentl}- broughtover from the Continent to be sold as an aviary pet, it is probable that some ofthese instances ma}? have been due to escapes. There are numerous subspeciesof the Scops-Owl distributed in almost all parts of the warmer countries of thew
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