. A history of British birds . scoiS~owL. 173 ACCIPITRE^. Scops giu (Scopoli*). THE SCOPS-OWL. Scoj)s Aldrovandij:. .Scops, SavignijX.—Beak much decurved from the base, cere small, under mandi-hle notched. Nostrils round. Facial disk incomplete above the eyes; auditoryconch small, and without an oijerculum. Wings long, reaching to the end of thetail; the third quill generally the longest. rather long, feathered in front:the toes naked. Head furnished with two tufts of feathers. This little tufted Owl, one of the smallest of the familyfound in this country, was first noticed a
. A history of British birds . scoiS~owL. 173 ACCIPITRE^. Scops giu (Scopoli*). THE SCOPS-OWL. Scoj)s Aldrovandij:. .Scops, SavignijX.—Beak much decurved from the base, cere small, under mandi-hle notched. Nostrils round. Facial disk incomplete above the eyes; auditoryconch small, and without an oijerculum. Wings long, reaching to the end of thetail; the third quill generally the longest. rather long, feathered in front:the toes naked. Head furnished with two tufts of feathers. This little tufted Owl, one of the smallest of the familyfound in this country, was first noticed as a British Bird inor about the year 1805, by the then Mr. Foljambe of Osber-ton and the late Mr. Charles Fothergill from specimenskilled in Yorkshire, as announced by Montagu. Otherexamples, to the number nearly of a score, have sinceoccurred; but at various times of the year, thus shewing * f/iii Scopoli, I. Historico-Naturalis, p. 19 (1769). t Fleming, British Animals, p. 57 0^28). J Systenie des Oiseaux de Ifigypto et de la Syrie, p. .» (181
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