A name applied to the Scops-owl (Scops Giu), common on the shores of the Mediterranean, and a summer visitant to Britain.
[Howard Saunders Manual Brit. Birds (1888), 298 says ‘To my ear its cry is a clear metallic ringing ki-ou—whence the Italian names chiù, ciù.’]
1855. Browning, Andrea del Sarto. The Cue-owls speak the name we call them by.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VIII. (1882), 324. The cue-owls from the cypresses Of the Poggio called.
