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MALAY SKETCHES

and it shares this reputation with two other owls,
which are called respectively Tumbok Idrong, that is
"Nail the and Chdrek " Rend the
coffin," kafan,
cloth for the shroud." Toh ka-tampi means " Old-
man-winnow -the -rice -for-the -burial -feast." The
names are rather gruesome, and are said to be
"
suggested by the peculiar cries of these ghost
birds."

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