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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Sundevall's system of classification, the nocturnal birds of prey, or owls: equivalent to the Striges, Strigidæ, or Accipitres nocturnæ of other authors, and opposed to Hemeroharpages, or diurnal birds of prey.
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