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THE GREAT HORNED OWL 
deep forests of Indiana, alone, and reposing in the woods, 
this ghostly watchman has frequently warned the traveller of 
the approach of morning, and amused him with his singular 
exclamations, sometimes sweeping down and around the fire, 
uttering a loud 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 resem- 
bles 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 ! 
This species inhabits the country round Hudson's Bay ; 
and according to Pennant, who considers it a mere variety 
of the Eagle Owl ( Strix bubo ) of Europe, is found in Kamt- 
schatka; extends even to the arctic regions, where it is 
often found white ; and occurs as low as Astrakan. It has 
also been seen white in the United States; but this has 
doubtless been owing to disease or natural defect, and not 
to climate. 
It preys on young rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, partridges, 
and small birds of various kinds. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 
The Great Horned Owl is famous for his depredations on 
the poultry-yard. A very large one, who had his wing 
broken by a shot while on a foraging expedition of this 
