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ern end of the State in the vicinity of Lake Erie, a 

 sliort distance from the busy city of Erie. 



FREDS ON INSECTS. 



This species feeds chiefly on insects, particularly 

 .ii;rasshoppers and ground-inhabiting beetles. They 

 destroy a good many May beetles, mice, and some small 

 birds. Occasionally they kill, I have been told, English 

 Sparrows; but their attacks on sparrows and other 

 small birds are much less frequent than is the case 

 with the Great Northern Shrike. 



SOMETIMES TRY TO KILL CHICKS. 



I have on two or three occasions been informed by 

 farmers that Butcher-birds (said to be the Loggerhead 

 species) had been seen to make attempts to catch 

 young chickens but a few days old. It is, however, a 

 rare thing for one of these birds to make an attack 

 on young chickens, and I think, it can be stated, with 

 absolute safety, that all the Shrikes that have been in 

 Pennsylvania during the past ten years have not com- 

 mitted depredations in the poultry yards which would 

 amount to five dollars. 



