SPECIES 7. STRIX VIRGINMNA. 
GREAT HORNED-OWL. 
[Plate L.— Fig. 1.] 
Jlrct. Zool. p. 228, JVo. 114 . — Edw. 60. — Lai ii, i, 1 19. — Tuht. 
Syst. 166. — P bale’s Museum, Xo, 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 volumet 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' nig-ht 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 0! Waugh 0! sufficient to have alarmed a whole gar- 
* We add the following synonymes: Hibou des Terres MagManiques, Buff, 
PI. Enl. 385. — Bubo Virginianus, Bniss. i, p- 484. — Strix Virginiana, Ind. Orn. 
p. 52. — Gmel. Syst. i, p. 287. — Virginian Eared Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supl. 
VI, p 40. 
+ Volume VI of the original edition. 
