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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great white or snowy owl, Strix nyctea or Nyctea scandiaca, inhabiting arctic and northerly regions of both hemispheres, and having the plumage more or less white. See
Nyctea , and cut underbraccate .
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But with the exception of the shriek of the snow-owl or the yelping of a fox emerged from his lair, there is no sound of life during seven or eight or nine months of winter on the Barren Grounds; unless the traveller is able to hear the rushing sound -- some can hear it, others cannot -- of the shifting
The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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