Scops owl
The genus Otus was first used in 1769. The Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant made it for the Indian scops owl (O. bakkamoena). The name comes from the Latin word  and the Greek word  ōtos meaning horned or eared owl (cf. οὖς,  ὠτός, "ear").  Marie Jules César Savigny made the English name "Scops" in 1809. and it comes from the Greek  skōps meaning small owl.