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Definition of Scops
1. scop [n] - See also: scop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scops
Literary usage of Scops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"I may add that I have compared the specimen of this Owl with examples of scops
everetti, which is the nearest species in geographical position to which it ..."
2. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Type, scops scops (L.). These little Tufted Owls are really diminutive representatives
of the great Eagle-Owls, from which they are easily ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"The scops, (scops, Savigny,} With the ears flush with the head, have the imperfect
... The scops, (St. scops,) Enl. 436. Scarcely as big as a blackbird. ..."
4. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"scops OWL. GENERIC CHARACTERS. Bill curved from the base ; the upper ridge of the
... Strix scops, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 129. 5 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 290. sp. 5. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1875)
"scops, Savigny, Deter, de T Egypte, p. 291 (1809) S. giù. ... distinct ; but I
am not able from memory by me two years ago from the type specimen :— scops ..."
6. A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1826)
"Le scops, ou petit Due, Buff.) THIS is the smallest of the Owl kind in this
country; its bill is brown at the base, and paler at the tip; irides light ..."
7. List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British by British Museum (Natural History), George Robert Gray, Adam White, James Francis Stephens, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"9, f. 3. Strix pulchella, Pall. Iter. ip 456. scops pennata ... scops senegalensis,
Swains. B. of W. Afr. ip 127. scops capensis, A. Smith, Cat. ..."
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