266 



TAWNY OWL. 



Class II. 



5. Tawny Strix striclula. S. capite lasvi. 

 Owl. corpore ferrugineo, remige 



tertio longiore. Lath. Ind. 



orn. 58. id. Syn. i. 139. 

 Ulula. Gesner av. 773. 

 Strix. Aldr. av. i. 285. 

 Common brown or ivy Owl. 



IFil. orn. 102. 

 Raii Syn. av. 25. 

 Le Chat huant. Brisson av. i. 



500. Hist, d'ois. i. 362. PL 



Enl. 437. 

 Strige. Zinan, 100. Scopoli, 



No. 12. . 



Strix strldula. Gm. Lin. 294. 

 Skrik uggla. Faun. Suec. 77. 

 Strix Orientalis. Hasselquist 



itin. 233. 

 Nacht Eule, Gemeine. Kram. 



324. 

 Braune-Eule, or Stock-Eule? 



Frisch, i. gQ. 

 Nat Ugle. Brunnich 18. 

 Br. Zool. 72. plate B. 3. 



Arct. Zool I. 275. 



JL HIS is the Strix oi Aldro'vandus, and what we 

 call the Screech Owl, to which the folly of su- 

 perstition had given the power of presaging 

 death by its cries. The antients believed that 

 it sucked the blood of young children ; a fact 

 not incredible, for Hasselquisf' describes a 

 species found in Syria, w^iich frequently in the 

 evening flies in at the windows, and destroys the 

 helpless infant. 



Nocte volant puerosque petunt nutricis egentes, 

 Et vitiant cuneis corpora rapta suis. 

 Carpere dicuntur lactentia viscera rostris, 

 Et plenum poto sanguine guttur habent. 



* Itin. 255. 



