SPECIES 7. STRIX VIRGINIANS. 



GREAT HORNED-OWL. 



[Plate L. Fig. 1.] 



Arct. Zool. p. 228, No. 114. EDW. 60. LATH, r, 119. TUBT. 

 Syst.p. 166. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 410.* 



THE figure of this bird, as well as of those represented in 

 the same plate, is reduced to one half its natural dimensions. 

 By the same scale, the greater part of the Hawks and Owls of 

 the present volume! are drawn; their real magnitude rendering 

 this unavoidable. 



This noted and formidable Owl is found in almost every 

 quarter of the United States. His favourite residence, how- 

 ever, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a 

 growth of gigantic timber; and here, as soon as evening draws 

 on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds, as 

 seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pil- 

 grim as he slumbers by his forest fire, 



" Making night hideous." 



Along the mountainous shores of the Ohio, and amidst the deep 

 forests of Indiana, alone, and reposing in the woods, this ghost- 

 ly watchman frequently warned me of the approach of morn- 

 ing, and amused me with his singular exclamations; sometimes 

 sweeping down and around my fire, uttering a loud and sudden 

 Waugh O! Waugh 0! sufficient to have alarmed a whole gar- 



* We add the following- synonymes: Hibou des Terres Magtllaniques, BUFF. 

 PI. Enl. 385. Bubo Virginianus, BRISS. i, p. 484. Strix Virginiana, Ind. Orn. 

 p. 52. GMEI. Syst. i, p. 287. Virginian Eared Owl, LATH. den. Syn. Supl 

 vi, p. 40. 



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