the night-bogle ; or (for the screech-owl) the At the 

 onomatopoeic 'corra-sgriachaig/ or several Rising of 

 terms meaning 'long-eared' or 'horned'; and 

 three or four designations, either onomatopoeic, 

 as perhaps ' ulacan ' (though both in sound and 

 meaning it is the same as the southland 

 ' hooligan '), or adaptations of the Teutonic 

 root -word, as 'Olcadan' or 'ullaid.' The 

 name ' yogle ' may be heard along the Lothian, 

 Yorkshire, and East Anglian coast-lands, and 

 is doubtless a ' lift ' from the Danish ' Kat- 

 yugle ' or ' Katogle ' : indeed ' catyogle,' * cat- 

 ogle,' and * catyool ' (with the quaint by-throw 

 'cherubim') occur in several parts of England. 

 In Clydesdale I have often heard the horned 

 owl called the 'luggie' (long- ears). Some 

 names with probably only local meaning I do 

 not understand, as for example, the 'Wite' 

 (not the adjective, but possibly the old word 

 for churchyard and even church) ; the ' padge ' 

 or ' pudge ' of Leicestershire ; the Jack-baker, 

 billy-wix, and the eastland ' will-a-wix.' (Is 

 this the cry of the young owl awaiting food ?) 

 The 'jilly,' which I heard once at or near 

 Windermere, is probably a corruption of the 

 Gaelic 'gheal' (white), as many north-Celtic 

 names survive in that region. Our commonest 

 name in the Highlands is * comhachag ' (co-ach- 

 ak) probably as onomatopoeic a term as * cuach ' 



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