BIRDS. 
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COYSTRIL (a Coward Hawk). 
Sir Toby. . . . He’s a coward and a coystril, 
Twelfth Night, Act i. Scene 3. 
PUTTOCK (a Kite). 
Imogen. ... I chose an eagle, 
And did avoid a puttock. 
Cymbeline, Act i. Scene 2. 
OWL. 
Ariel. There I couch when owls do cry. 
The Tempest, Act v. Scene 1. 
King Richard. For night-owls shriek, where mount¬ 
ing larks should sing. 
King Richard II., Act. iii. Scene 3. 
Warwick. Our soldiers’—like the night-owl’s lazy 
flight, 
Or like a lazy thresher with a flail— 
Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends. 
King Henry . The owl shriek’d at thy birth, an 
evil sign ; 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act ii. Scene 1 ; 
Act v. Scene 6. 
Ajax. I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor 
of the proclamation, and he rails upon me. 
Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Scene 1. 
