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great horned owl 
a common North American owl, Bubo virginianus. See 1748 quote.
- 1748 The great Horned Owl is also common in this Country, which is a very singular Bird, with a Head very little inferior in Size to that of a Cat, and what are called the Horns, composed of Feathers, rising just above the Bill, intermixed at the Bottom with white, becoming of a red brown by Degrees, and tipped with black.
- 1863 (1873) And if, perchance, camped for the night out on the mountain brow in a deserted sugar-hut, you hear the terrible hooting of the great horned owl, fear nothing; it is not the evil one.
- 1957 . . . it was his ambition to take a series of pictures of a great horned owl.
- 1748 The great Horned Owl is also common in this Country, which is a very singular Bird, with a Head very little inferior in Size to that of a Cat, and what are called the Horns, composed of Feathers, rising just above the Bill, intermixed at the Bottom with white, becoming of a red brown by Degrees, and tipped with black.