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are a little less than an inch long, and rather more than seven tenths of an 

 inch broad. 



The Loggerhead Shrike is found in Eastern North America, west to the 

 Plains. They breed from the Gulf States to Virginia and sometimes South- 

 ern New Jersey on the coast. In the interior they breed north to the Great 

 Lakes and through Western Pennsylvania and Central New York to New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. 



The Great Northern Shrike is almost a copy of the Loggerhead in color, 

 but is so much larger, ten inches and a half long, as to be rarely confounded 

 with that bird. 



The salient color differences are a ivhitish fore- 

 head and tlie region in front of the eye is not so clearly 

 black as in the Loggerhead. The under parts are white or grayish white 

 seldom immaculate, but generally barred with fine wavy lines of dusky or 

 blackish. 



Northern Shrike. 



Lanius borealis Vieill. 



GREAT NORTHERN SHRIKE. IMMATURE. 



Immature birds have the upper as well as the lower parts obscurely and 

 more heavily barred, and are suffused with brownish. The nest is built much 

 in the same way as that of the Loggerhead, and the eggs are much like those 

 of that bird in color and markings, but are appreciably larger. 



The Great Northern Shrike seems more disposed to kill and eat small 

 birds than does the Loggerhead, and the Sparrows and Snowbirds are 



