no BARN OWL. 



Foedaque fit volucris, venturi nuncia lucttis, 

 Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen. 



Ovid— Metamorphf V., 550, 



The loathsome bird that heralds coming woe, 

 The moping Owl, dread sign to men below. 



Rev. Thos. Woodhouse— IVans. 



Tectoque profanus 

 Incubuit bubo, thalamique in culmine sedet. 



Ovid — Metamorph, VI., 43^. 



The Owl unclean alighted on the roof 

 And high above the chamber sat aloof. 



Rev. Thos. Woodhouse— Tran*. 



The Oule eke, that of death the bode bringeth. 



Chaucer. 



And now the crowing Cocke and now the Owle 

 Lowd shriking ; him afflicted to the very soule. 



Spenser. 



The ill-faced Owl death's dreadful messenger. 



Ibid. 



The rueful strich still wayting on the beere. 



Ibid. 



Out on ye Owls ! nothing but songs of death ? 



Shakespeare — Richard III., IV., 4- 



The Owl shriek'd at thy birth— an evil sign. 



Shakespeare— Parf J/J., Henry VI., V., 6. 



It was the Owl that shriek'd ; the fatal bellman 

 Which gives the stern'st good night. 



Shakespeare — Macbeth, II., 2. 



The night (I sing by night, sometimes an Owl, 



And now and then a Nightingale) is dim ; 

 And the loud shriek of sage Minerva's fowl 



Rattles around me her discordant hymn. 



Byron. 



Again the Screech-owl shrieks, ungracious sound. 



Blair— (^rot-e. 



Birds of omen, dark and foul. 

 Night-crow, Raven, Bat and Owl. 



Scott — Gcelic Legend. 



Each bird of evil omen woke. 



The Screech-owl from her thicket broke. 



And fluttered down the dell. 



Scott— ^aroW the Dauntless. 



Blue-eyed, strange-voiced, sharp-beaked, ill-omened fowl, 

 What ar't thou ? 



— What I ought to be — an Owl ; 

 But if I'm such a scare-crow in your eye. 

 You're a much greater fright in mine,— good bye ! 



Montgomery— 5n-c?«. 



