. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Nostrils roundish. Eyelids with broad thin crenate margins,and without distinct ciliary fringes, although feathered. Conchelliptical, simple, about a third of the height of the head. Head very large, roundish ; neck short; body slender. Legsrather short; tarsi slender, feathered ; toes short, bare, reticu-late, at the end scutellate ; claws lon
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Nostrils roundish. Eyelids with broad thin crenate margins,and without distinct ciliary fringes, although feathered. Conchelliptical, simple, about a third of the height of the head. Head very large, roundish ; neck short; body slender. Legsrather short; tarsi slender, feathered ; toes short, bare, reticu-late, at the end scutellate ; claws long, slightly curved, taper-ing, compressed, acute, narrow beneath, but that of the thirdtoe with a thin inner edge. Plumage full and soft, on the upper parts somewhat com-pact. Facial disks incomplete above the eyes; ruff incon-spicuous and incomplete. Feathers generally ovato-oblong ;those of the abdomen downy, of the tibi?e siliiy, of the tarsishort, and somewhat dense. Wings long, with the third quilllongest. Tail rather short, slightly rounded, of twelve some-what arched feathers. Some of the species, as Strix portori-censis, are destitute of tufts on the head. 422 SCOPS ALDROVANDI. THE ALDROVANDINEOWLET. SCOPS EARED OWL. LITTLE HORNED Strix Scops. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 129. Strix Scops. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 56. Little Horned Owl. Mont. Orn. Diet. Hibou Scops. Strix Scops. Temm. Man. dOrn. 103. Scops-eared Owl. Scops Aldrovandi. Selb. Illustr. L 92. Bubo Scops. Scops-eared Owl. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 91. Head with tufts of about twelve feathers ; plumage light greyvariegated with brown, and marhed with longitudinal brownish-black lines and transverse undulations; le^igth about eight inches. This pretty little Owl being of very rare occurrence in Britain,I have never met with it alive, nor even examined a fresh spe-cimen, so that the following description is necessarily takenfrom preserved individuals, of which the sex had not been per-haps accurately determined. Male.—The
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