the horned owl (swanA.V. and R.V. mg.) another kind of owl. The Heb. root (also used in Leviticus 11:30 for the chameleon [moleA.V.]) suggests a bird that makes a snorting sound, or breathes hard. The LXX. trans. πορφυρίων. Tristram (Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 249) and Driver (Deut. in loc.) -the water hen."

the pelican In the lists and Psalms 102:6 [Hebrews 7] (-a pelican of the wilderness"); Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14 (cormorantA. V.) it is used of a bird inhabiting desolate places.

the vulture (the gier-eagleA.V.) It is distinguished by zoologists as vultur percnopterus.

The cormorant follows in Deut. at the close of Leviticus 14:17.

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