screech owl

He has a similar dread of a screech-owl, whom he compliments in the name of its mistress, Pallas Athene.

The old keeper had betrayed to him that in a cleft of a tolerably lofty rock in the deer-park a screech-owl had built a nest.

The screech-owl flies with a silent wing, as if wrapped in tow (comme toupe de ouate).

As he did so, there resounded again, simultaneously, the howl of the yard dog and the death-cry of the screech-owl.