Chapter ORTOLAN to OWL of O by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

generality of persons who are attacked with it die in a few days.…”—Asiat. Res. ii. 307.

1816.—“…rain brings alone with it the local malady called the Owl, so much dreaded in the woods and valleys of Nepaul.”—Asiatic Journal, ii. 405.

1858.—“I have known European officers, who were never conscious of having drunk either of the waters above described, take the fever (owl) in the month of May in the Tarae.”—Sleeman, Journey in Oudh, ii. 103.]