266 



TAWNY OWL. 



Class II. 



5. Tawny Strix stridula. S. capite lasvi, 

 Owl. corpore ferrugineo, remige 



tertio longiore. Lath. Ind. 



orn. 58. id. Syn. i. 13Q. 

 Ulula. Gesner av. 773. 

 Strix. Aldr. av. i. 285. 

 Common brown or ivy Owl. 



Wil. orn. 102. 

 Rail Syn. av. 25. 

 Le Chat huant. Brisson av. i. 



500. His?. a"ois. i. 362. PI. 



Enl. 437- 

 Strige. Zinan, 100. Scopoli, 



No. 12. 



Strix stridula. Gm. Lin. 294. 

 Skrik uggla. Faun. Suec. 77. 

 Strix Orientalis. Hasselquist 



kin. 233. 

 Nacht Eule, Gemeine. Kram. 



324. 

 Braune-Eule, or Stock-Eule? 



Frisch, i. g6. 

 Nat Ugle. Brunnich 18. 

 Br. Zool. 72. plate B. 3. 



Arct. Zool i. 275. 



J- HIS is the Stria of Aldrovandus, 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 Hasselquist* describes a 

 species found in Si/?*ia, which 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. 



