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



onomatopoeic 'corra-sgriachaig/ or several 

 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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