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cities and towns, Shrilies — particularly the Nortlit^rn 

 Shrike — have learned to visit lawns, parks and gar- 

 dens, and ivy-covered buildings, to prey on these 

 passerine pests, which before many years will become 

 a serious menace to our farmers and pomologists. 



This sparrow-devouring habit which the Shrike has 

 developed in recent years, has, fortunately, won for 

 him the good will of many, who, in former years, 

 through ignorance destroyed this bird, because it was 

 alleged, and generally believed that the Shrike preyed 

 on domesticated fowls. 



A BENEFICIAL SPECIES. 



The poor Shrike, whicb gains a livelihood principally 

 by catching destructive beetles, grasshoppers and mice, 

 was placed on the black-list by farmers and poultry- 

 raisers, who, because of insufficient knowledge, mis- 

 took this gray-coated benefactor, when he came about 

 their premises to devour insidious foes, for one or the 

 other of the two or three smaller species of Hawus 

 which are fully described on preceding pages of this 

 volume. 



THE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 



This bird is noticeably smaller than its cousin, the 

 Northern Shrike, which is so named because it rears 

 its young in boreal regions where at the close of the 

 fleeting arctic summer it is compelled, with its pro- 

 geny, to migrate southward where it can find a suffi- 

 cient supply of desirable food. 



A SUMMER BIRD HERE. 



The Loggerhead is a common summer bird in many 

 parts of Pennsylvania, particularly in the northwest- 



