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Title: The new international encyclopaedia
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908 Peck, Harry Thurston, 1856-1914 Colby, Frank Moore, 1865-1925
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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be found inCharles Watertons Essays. Another generallyinteresting species is the little owl of SouthernEurope, called chevik-he by the French andcivetta by the Italians, which is the one re-garded by the ancients as the familiar of Mi-nerva, a symbol of wisdom, and hence became theemblem of Athens. It is the Carine iioctua ofmodern ornithology. This small species is brown,mottled with white oval spots, has no horns, andits great eyes are surrounded by horizontallyoval disks, like big spectacles, giving it a veryknowing expression. It is numerous, compara-tively tame, and lives well in aviaries. The owl has from early times been deemed abird of evil omen, and has been an object of dis-like and dread to the superstitious. This is per-haps partly to be ascribed to the manner withwhich it is often seen, then as suddenly lost toview, when the twilight is deepening into night;partly to the fact that some of the best knownones frequent ruined buildings, while others haunt REPRESENTATIVE OWLS
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1. LITTLE OWL of Europe ICanne noctua; symbol of Pallas Athene 2. HAWK OWL iSurnia ululal. 3. BARRED OWL ISyrnlum, or Scotiaptex neBulosumi. 4. GREAT HORNED OWL (Bubo Virginlanus; type of Eagle Owls.5 BARN OWL iStrIx flammea:.6. BURROWING OWL ISpeotyto cumoularial. OWL. 173 OWOSSO. the deepest solitudes of woods; but, no doubt,cliieflj to the crj- of some of the species, hollow andlugubrious, but loud and startling, heard duringthe hours of darkness, and often by the lonelywanderer. It is evidently from this cry that theword owl is derived, as well as many of its syn-onyms in other languages, and of the names ap-propriated in different countries to particularspecies, in most of which the sound oo or oic\< predominant. Nevertheless the notes of someuf the smaller ones, as our common Americanmottled owl, are low and melodious—a pleasantrippling ululation. Many of the owls have alsoanother and very different cry, which has gained— for more than one of them the appellationscreech-o

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