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Definition of Scops owl
1. Noun. Any of several small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call.
Group relationships: Genus Otus, Otus
Specialized synonyms: Old World Scops Owl, Otus Scops, Oriental Scops Owl, Otus Sunia
Definition of Scops owl
1. Noun. A small European migratory owl, ''Otus scops'', that winters in sub-Saharran Africa. ¹
2. Noun. Any bird of the genus ''Otus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Scops owl
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scops Owl
Literary usage of Scops owl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"White-eared scops owl. Hab. West Africa. a, b. Purchased, May 19,1865. 726. ...
American scops owl. Hab. North America. a, 6. Purchased, July 20, 1882. ..."
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1888)
"8. Konkan, Jan. to March. G. Vidal, GS 75 ter.—THE LARGE scops owl. ... The Large
scops owl occurs, but is by no means common in Sind, ..."
3. An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders (1899)
"The often-repeated story of the breeding of the Scops-Owl at Castle-Eden Dene
... The Scops-Owl is only a summer-visitor even to the temperate portions of ..."
4. A Catalogue of the Birds of Sind: Cutch, Káthiáwár, North Gujarát, and Mount by Edward Arthur Butler (1879)
"The Indian scops owl.— Descr. Jerdon, I; also vide Hume's Raptores, 386, and "
SF" II, ... Brace's scops owl.—Descr. " S. F/' I, 8; V, 245, and VII, 505. ..."
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