I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Ver. 6. I am like a pelican] Or bittern, which liveth in lonely places, and crieth out dolefully, Isa 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14 .
I am like an owl in the desert] Avis lucifuga, a night bird, a night raven, the Vulgate hath it; others, a bat, a cuckoo, but mostly an owl, that noctis monstrum, as Pliny, lib. 10, cap. 12, speaketh of her, nec cantu aliquo vocales sed gemitu, hated of all other fowls, which never come near her, but to keep a wondering at her.