84 NA TURAL HISTOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Ophelia . 
daughter. 
. They say, the owl was a baker’s 
Hamlet, Act iv. Scene 5. 
Arviragus. The night to the owl, and morn to the 
lark, less welcome. 
Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 6. 
Lady Macbeth. It was the owl that shriek’d, the 
fatal bellman 
Which gives the stern’st good night. 
Macbeth, Act ii. Scene 2. 
CHOUGH. 
Puck. Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, 
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report, 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Edgar . . . . How fearful 
And dizzy ’tis, to cast one’s eyes so low ! 
The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, 
Show scarce so gross as beetles ; 
King Lear, Act iv. Scene 6. 
CROW. 
Demetrius. That pure congealed white, high 
Taurus’ snow, 
Fann’d with the eastern wind, turns to a crow, 
When thou hold’st up thy hand : 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
