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Definition of Boobook
1. an Australian owl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boobook
Literary usage of Boobook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1875)
"boobook Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 64. Noctua boobook, Vigors, Tr. Linn.
... Orn. Strix boobook, Lath. Ind. Orn, Suppl. ii. p. xv. Athene boobook ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The latter may be seen in sunlight capturing birds or insects in the woods, but
the note of " boobook," or " buck-buck," from which it gets its native name, ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"boobook, «. an owl. Ninox boobook (see Owl} ; Athene boo- I'ook (Gould's ' Birds
of Australia,' vol. i. pi. 32). " From cry or note of bird. ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1896)
"NINOX boobook (boobook Owl). One of the most familiar sounds to be heard during
the night, wherever timber was large enough to afford sufficient shelter, ..."
5. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1827)
"boobook Owl. Id. Gen. Hist. ip 362. no. 66. •" The native name of this bird," as Mr.
Caley informs us, " is Buck'buck. It may be heard nearly every night ..."
6. A Residence in Tasmania: With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island, from by Henry Butler Stoney (1856)
"Delicate owl. 13. Athene, Boie, boobook, Latham. A. boobook. Gould. boobook, or
brown owl of the colony. 14. ..."
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