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Show DEVIL BIRD HAS AWFUL CRY Natives of Ceylon Art Not to Be Blamed for Being Terrified - by Its 8c ream. Of all tho e Inspiring sounds emitted by wild rreatures. none, It Is said. Is to be compared to that of the "devil bird" of Ceylon, whose cry hss ben likened to the scream of a btinisn being undergoing the most frightful torturn. Naturalists bave Identified this bird with the brown woodowl found In Hindustan The natives of Ceylon regard the cry of this bird with superstitious bor ror. for. It Is claimed. Its scream heard at night presnges the most dire misfortunes. A Drltlfih octal of the Ceylon rlvll service has given some study to this curious bird Its ordlnsry note, he states. Is a in.-'gnlflcent clesr shout like (hat of a human being besrd at a great distance, and producing a fine effect In the silence of the night. Hut the sounds that bave earned for the bird Its bad name, and which this officer reports he beard to perfec tlon b it onre, are asld to be well nigh Indescribable, tfce most appalling that can be Imagined, and scsrcely to be heard without a shudder It has been eomrored to the c-!rs of a boy In tor lure, whose seres m are being stop ped by strangulation. Scientific American |