82 Birds Every Child Should Know 



song some morning in early spring. Before we 

 become familiar with it, however, the wander- 

 ing minstrel is off to the far north to nest within 

 the arctic circle. It is only in winter that the 

 northern shrike visits the United States, travel- 

 ling as far south as Virginia and Kansas between 

 October and April. He is larger than the log- 

 gerhead, being a little over ten inches long, a 

 goodlooking winter visitor in a gray suit with 

 black and white trimmings on his wings and tail 

 and wavy bars on his breast. Bradford Torrey 

 used to visit a vireo that would drink water 

 from a teaspoon which he held out to her while 

 she sat brooding on her nest. I know a lady 

 who fed bits of raw meat to a wounded shrike 

 from the tines of a fork, the best substitute 

 for a thorn she could find, because he found it 

 awkward to eat from a dish. 



THE CEDAR WAXWING 



Called also: Cedarhird; Cherry-bird; Bonnet 

 bird, Silk-tail. 



So few birds wear their head feathers crested 

 that it is a simple matter to name them by 

 their top-knots alone, even if you did not see 

 the gray plumage of the little tufted titmouse, 

 the dusky hue of the crested flycatcher, the blue 



