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great fierceness, striking with its bill and claws, its 
large eyes opening and shutting in quick succes- 
sion, and its feathers rising so as to double its ap- 
parent size. 
The great horned owl is one of those which rear 
their young in Massachusetts, The nest is generally 
in the fork of a tree, made of twigs, and lined with 
leaves and a few feathers. The eggs are from three 
to six in number ; the color, white. The male re- 
lieves the female in sitting. The young remain in 
the nest till they are fully fledged , and acquire the 
full plumage of the old birds in the succeeding 
spring. 
The CrwEREoUS Own, Siris cinerea, or Great 
Grey Owl, as he is commonly called, is very often _ 
found in Maine, but seldom in Massachusetts. Sev- 
eral years since, Ohne was taken on a woodpile in 
Marblehead, and lived some months after its capture. 
But such visits are accidental, and its home is at 
Hudson’s Bay and Labrador, where it is found 
throughout the year. 
in search of. rats 4nd mice, wh o ether wi with 
moles and field-mice, ant its MER, eundi for 
food. It is soMetiMes mistaken for the young of the 
great-horned Owl, à species which it resembles in 
everything but size, so that they are easily con- 
founded by untaught observers. It is like it in 
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