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Its loud unmusical call has been syllabised pichu-giapo. Cuculus micropterus. The Indian cuckoo. Hierococcyx varius. The common hawk-cuckoo. Hierococcyx sparverioides. The large hawk-cuckoo. Palæornis schisticeps. The slaty-headed paroquet. This bird is not nearly so common in the Eastern as in the Western Himalayas. Glaucidium brodei. The collared pigmy owlet. Syrnium indrani. The brown wood-owl.
She stood motionless a moment; but the brick walls opposite, the trees, the lamp-posts spun around, like maple leaves in an autumn gale. "My owlet! why don't you have a light and some fire?" He stumbled toward her, and put his hand on her shoulder; but she shrank away, and, lighting the gas, rang for coal. "There is something terrible the matter; Russell is either ill or dead. I must go to him."
Like several other little owls, it sometimes shows itself during the daytime. Once at Mussoorie I noticed a pigmy collared owlet sitting as bold as brass on a conspicuous branch about midday and making grimaces at me. From the owls to the diurnal birds of prey it is but a short step. Next to the warblers, the raptores are the most difficult birds to distinguish one from the other.
When he let go, the owlet made no sound, but crept away and hid its face in a corner, and heaved as if with sobs. Father closed his eyes slowly and opened them slowly amused, I thought. The mother had been reading the leaf all the time. "Dear me! very interesting!" she said. "I suppose now the worst of it is over."
When she spoke of herself in connection with their guest, he smiled with pleasure, and as she concluded, he exclaimed, with delight, "We are safe! we are safe!" But he was interrupted, as will be seen in the following chapter. The owlet loves the gloom of night, The lark salutes the day, The timid dove will coo at hand But falcons soar away. Song in Duo.
I know that at last she left off talking to me, and I could see her wise eyes swimming in tears. Then she left me alone under the cloth. "Well, Miss," said the coachman, "you don't make much of him, do ye? He's a Tartar, Miss, I'm afraid." "I think, Williams, that he's too old. Captain Barton's owl was a little owlet when he first got him.
I had sought acquaintance and had gained some knowledge such as books cannot supply, not only of owls in general, but of that particular species of owls to which Tommy belonged, who, in the heraldry of ornithology, was Carine brahma, an Indian spotted owlet. This branch of the ancient family of owls has always been eccentric. It does not mope and to the moon complain.
"Mary, I beg you to have the horn blown again, that she may know that the supper is on the table. What can the little owlet do abroad at this hour of the night?" There was trouble in the priest's gentle eyes as he touched the Knight upon the sleeve. "I have seen Mistress Edith within this hour," said he. "I fear that she will hear no horn that you may blow, for she must be at Milford ere now."
But it isn't to be." "Thanks to your stepma's wheedling and Mark Foster's scheming," said I. "No, Mark didn't scheme," she said patiently. "Don't be unjust to Mark, Aunt Rachel. He has been very good and kind." "He's as stupid as an owlet and as stubborn as Solomon's mule," I said, for I WOULD say it. "He's just a common fellow, and yet he thinks he's good enough for my beauty."
'We are bent on a far errand. "'Indeed! may I ask its nature? "'To hear the bat flutter and the owlet scream. Wilt also listen to the music? "'I understand you not, sirs. What mean you? "'We are the guardians of the Red Earth. The guilty tremble at our approach; but the innocent need not fear!
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