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mind. They perch closely together, sitting quietly, but raising and lower- 

 ing the crest interrogatively. At certain seasons, usually late summer, they 

 are active as Flycatchers, and may then be seen darting out into the air 

 and su^inging back to the starting point. 



Son^. — Our Cedar Waxvving is practically songless. A wheezy whistle, 

 usuall\' uttered as the birds take flight, is its principal note. 



Family 10. Shrikes. LaniidiP. 



Ranfre. — Only two of the some 200 species belonging to this family are 

 found in America, its remaining representatives being distributed over the 

 greater part of the eastern hemisphere. 



Season. — Our winter Shrike is the Northern or Butcher Bird which 

 comes in October and remains until spring. In the summer we may look 



CKDAR U AXWING. Family .imrrliJa 

 Otu-lhird natural size 



for the Loggerhead, a bird of peculiar distribution which breeds in the 

 South Atlantic States and the Mississippi X'alley and eastward through cen- 

 tral and northern New ^Ork to northern New England, but is found onl\ 

 as a migrant from southern New Knglaml to N'irginia. 



(.'o/or. — Our two Shrikes .irc nuicli alike in color, being gra\ ish above and 



