. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. Chap. VHI.] OWLS. 247 lese regard it literally with horror, and its scream by night in the vicinity of a village is bewailed as the. THE " DEVIL ; harbinger of impending calamity.* There is a popular legend in connection with it, to the efifect that a morose races, the Ceylon 'bird approximat- ing most nearly to that of the Malayan Peninsula. ' T
. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. Chap. VHI.] OWLS. 247 lese regard it literally with horror, and its scream by night in the vicinity of a village is bewailed as the. THE " DEVIL ; harbinger of impending calamity.* There is a popular legend in connection with it, to the efifect that a morose races, the Ceylon 'bird approximat- ing most nearly to that of the Malayan Peninsula. ' The horror of this nocturnal sereamwas equally prevalent in the "West as in the East. Ovid intro- duces it in his Fasti, L. vi. 1. 139; and Tibullus in his Elegies, L. i. El. 5. Statius says — Noctummque gemunt stxiges, et feralia bubo Damna camm. _ _ Iheb. Ui. 1. 611. But Pliny, 1. xi. u. 93, doubts as to what bird produced the sound;— and the details of Ovid's descrip- tion do not apply to an owl. Mr. Mitford, of the Ceylon Civil Service, to whom I am indebted for many valuable notes relative to the birds of the island, regards the identification of the Singhalese Devil-Bird as open to similar B 4. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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