Crossword-Solution: CIVETTA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Civet-cat, tanggalong (Viverra civetta): the natives take the civet, as they require it for use, from a peculiar receptacle under the tail of the animal.

This apparatus he disposes on a hedge or cover of any kind--the little owl (_Civetta_) sits opposite on his pole--the birds come to tease him, and fly on the birdlime twig, when, if it be a sparrow, he is effectually detained by the viscus only--if a blackbird, pop at him goes an old rusty gun.

Among the various strange birds which find a place in the Roman bill of fare, is a pretty little owl yclept the Civetta, (called by British ornithologists, from its diminutive size, the _passerina_, or sparrow owl,) which abounds throughout Italy, where it figures in more varied capacities than is consistent with the usually reserved habits of its race.

There is scarcely an outhouse in the vineyards and gardens which is not tenanted by the Civetta, and it is often brought up tame from the nest." It has hitherto been known in England only as a rare and accidental visitor; and Mr Waterton, actuated by a patriotic desire to secure for his countrymen the benefit of its services--"not, by the way, in the kitchen, but in the kitchen-garden"--provided himself with a dozen as _compagnons de voyage_, on quitting Rome.

The imp, taking the form of a _civetta_ or small owl, vanished through the window in the storm-wind and rain, wailing, ‘_Mai finito_!’ “And it is said that to this day the small owl still perches by night on the roof of the palace, wailing wearily—‘Unfinished! unfinished!’” * * * * * In no country in the world has unscrupulous vigorous intellect been so admired as in Italy, the land of the Borgias and Machiavellis.