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winter bird the Northern Shrike would of course be compelled 

 to eat different food than its summering relatives, and conse- 

 quently is considered separately. Birds and mice constitute 

 sixty per cent of its food while with us, the remaining forty 

 per cent being insects, chietiy grasshoppers. Among the birds 

 killed by the Northern Shrike are the Chickadee, Tree Sparrow, 

 Snow-flake, Downy Woodpecker, Junco, Golden-crowned King- 

 let, Goldfinch, Pine Siskin, Cardinal, Longspurs and Horned 

 Larks. Very often it comes into towns and cities and destroys 

 large numbers of English Sparrows, a trait certainly not to its 

 discredit. Occasionally, when very hungry it even becomes 



NOKTHEIIN SHRIKE. 

 Sylvester D. Jiuld, Bulletin No. 9, 1898. 



