GREAT HORNED OWL. 
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j®''®! as soon as evening: draws on, and mankind retire 
lie sends forth such sounds as seem scarcely to 
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to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he 
’hnbers by his forest fire. 
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“ Maldng night hideous.” 
the mountainous shores of the Ohio, and amidst 
® deep forests of Indiana, alone, and reposing in the 
®ods, tliig g’hostly watchman has frequently warned 
jjj® ®t the approach of morning, and amused me with his 
^^tfnlar exclamations, sometimes sweeping down and 
J’Rnd my fire, uttering a loud and sudden Wmujh O ! 
5l ^ ' sit®tdent to have alarmed a whole garrison, 
other nocturnal solos, no less melodious, one of 
Jell very strikingly reseinhles the halt suppressed 
cJ®''tms of a person sulfocating, or throttled, and cannot 
hi!V*^* being exceedingly entertaining to a lonely he- 
^^ted traveller, in the midst of an Indian wilderness ! 
n species inhabits the country round Hudson’s 
ft, y > and, according to Pennant, who considers it a 
'^® Variety of the eagle owl {strix bubo) of Europe, 
fe, -’''''A in Kamtschatka ; extends even to the arctic 
where it is often found white ; and occurs as low 
I^.Asti-akau. It has also been seen white in the United 
0 |. *'*'’*; but this has doubtless been owing to disea.se 
defect, and not to climate. It preys on young 
eC ’‘hs, squirrels, rats, mice, partridges, and small birds 
'^^'■■ous kinds. It has been often known to prowl 
^ ’*1 the farm house, and carry oft’ chickens from roost, 
larg'e one, wing-broken while on a foraging 
iirsiou of this kind, w'as kept about the house for 
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days, and at length disappeared, no one knew 
Almost every day after this, hens and chickens 
® disappeared, one by one, in an nnaccoiiutahle 
f till, in eight or ton days, very few were left 
‘®‘t>ing. The fox, the minx, and tveasel, wmre alter- 
hior ■ reputed authors of this mischief, until one 
hi e the old lady herself, rising before day to bake, 
the towards the oven, surprised her late prisoner, 
^'rl, regaling himself on the body of a newly killed 
