owlet

• I am quite done up with you being such an owlet, Gatty Gatty._--"If you please, little Mother, I don't care about them at all. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
• The chirping of the small owlet was considered to be a bad omen, whether made while the bird was sitting or flying; It was known as chiraiya and is a low and melancholy sound seldom repeated. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
• Nor do they wait for the setting of the sun until they commence to pour forth what Eha terms a "torrent of squeak and chatter and gibberish Almost as abundant as the spotted owlet is the jungle owlet (_Glaucidium radiatum_). —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
• From a tendu tree a pair of droll little brown monkeys chattered and grimaced at the clattering cart A spotted owlet, disturbed by the driver's encouraging, "Pop-pop! —  Caste
• I had also gathered from his public appearances that a spotted owlet is happy in his domestic life and that he is fond of fat white ants, for, when their winged swarms were flying, I had seen him making short flights from his perch in a tree and catching them with his feet; and I believed that he fed in secret on mice and lizards. —  Concerning Animals and Other Matters

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