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screech-owl en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of screech owl.
It is said that whenever a member of the house of the Arundels of Wardour lies on his death-bed, a pair of large screech-owls fly round the battlements each night till his decease.
1888 July 14, “Bird Legends”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLIII, number 1024, London: […], page 40, column 2:
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