GREAT HORNED OWL. 
warned me of the approach of the morn- 
ing, and amused me with his singular 
exclamations, sometimes sweeping down 
and around my fire, uttering a lound and 
sudden Waugh 0! Waugh 0! sufficient 
to have alarmed a whole garrison. He has 
other nocturnal solos, no less melodious, 
one of which very strikingly resembles 
the half-suppressed screams of a person 
suffocating, or throttled, and cannot fail 
of being exceedingly entertaining to a 
lonely benighted traveller, in the midst of 
an Indian Wilderness !” 
