 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...formidable Owl is found in almost every quarter of the United States. His favourite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with...sounds, as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, " Making night hideous." Along the... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...GREAT-HORNED Owt is found in almost every quarter of the United States. His favourite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps covered with...this world. Along the mountainous shores of the Ohio, and amidst the deep forests of Indiana, alone and reposing in the woods, this ghostly watchman has... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...formidable owl is found in almost every quarter of the United States. His favourite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with...such sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, " Making night hideous." Along the... | |
 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 280 pages
...favourite residence is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber. Here, as soon as evening draws on, and mankind retire...sounds, as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, ' making night hideous.' Along the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...are white. " Under surface. — Chin, white. Throat, crossed by the band above 260 URKAT HORNED OWL. growth of gigantic timber ; and here, as soon as evening...mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds as mentioned, behind which there is u large space of pure snow white, that is bounded on the breast by... | |
 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 286 pages
...following animated description of the habits of this bird of the wilderness : — " His favourite residence is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber. Here, as soon as evening draws on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds, as seem... | |
 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 284 pages
...following animated description of the habits of this bird of the wilderness : — " His favourite residence is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber. Here, as soon as evening draws on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds, as seem... | |
 | Birds - 1834 - 700 pages
...horned owl is found in almost every quarter of the United States. " His favorite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with...this world. Along the mountainous shores of the Ohio, and amidst the deep forests of Indiana, alone and reposing in the woods, this ghostly watchman has... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...arctic regions to the straits of Magellan. " His favourite residence," says a celebrated writer, " is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps covered with...such sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire." " Along the mountainous shores of... | |
 | 1838 - 886 pages
...quarter of the United States. His favourite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep "ramps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber ; and here,...such sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, ' Making night hideous.' Along the... | |
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His favorite residence, however, 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,... 
