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it crouclied on its perch, reconnoitred every object 
around with looks of eager fierceness ; alighted and 
fed ; stood on the meat with clenched talons, while it 
tore it. in morsels with its bill; flew round the room 
with the silence of thought, and perching, moaned out 
its melancholy notes with many lively gesticulations, 
not at all accordant with the pitiful tone of its ditty, 
which reminded one of the shivering moanings of a 
half frozen puppy. 
This species is found generally over the United 
States, and is not migratory. 
The red owl is eight inches and a half long, and 
twenty-one inches in extent ; general colour of the 
plumage above, a bright nut brown, or tawny red ; the 
shafts, black ; exterior edges of the outer row of 
scapulars, white ; bastard wing, the five first primaries, 
and three or four of the first greater coverts, also spotted 
with white ; whole wing quills, spotted with dusky 
on their exterior webs ; tail, rounded, transversely 
barred with dusky and pale brown ; chin, breast, and 
sides, bright reddish brown, streaked laterally with 
black, intermixed with white ; belly and vent, white, 
spotted with bright brown; legs, covered to the claws 
with pale brow n hairy dow n ; extremities of the toes 
and claw s, pale bluish, ending in black ; bill, a pale 
bluish horn colour; eyes, vivid yellow; inner angles 
of the eyes, eyebrow's, and space surrounding the bill, 
whitish : rest of the face nut brow n ; head, horned or 
eared, each consisting of nine or ten feathers of a tawny 
red, shafted w ith black. 
SUBGENUS II. ULULA, CUVIER. 
29 . STRIX VIRGINIANA , WILSON. GREAT HORNED OWL. 
WILSON, PL. L. FIG. I. EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This noted and formidable owd is found in almost 
every quarter of the United States. His favourite 
residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep 
swamps, covered w ith a grow th of gigantic timber ; and 
