290 PERCHERS AND SINGERS 



The Loggerhead also feeds freely upon lizards, snakes, frogs 

 and fish, when they are obtainable. The Butcher Bird is a 

 deadly enemy of the English sparrow, and kills and eats 

 them so industriously that in Boston certain city officials 

 once felt called upon to order the Shrikes to be shot. 



The table on the opposite page is a very full exposition of 

 the food habits of the two members of the Shrike Family 

 referred to. 



The Great Northern Shrike is able to sing, but seldom 

 does so; and many of his friends think he sings not at all. 

 In summer it ranges all the way to Cook Inlet, Alaska, and 

 in winter it migrates as far south as Virginia. In the southern 

 states it meets the Loggerhead Shrike, and the two species 

 so strongly resemble each other that they are like two 

 feathered Dromios. 



THE WAXWING FAMILY 



Ampelidae 



The Bohemian Waxwing. 1 — Once, on a certain cold and 

 bleak Thanksgiving spent on the banks of the Musselshell 

 River in Montana, when the mercury stood at 8° below zero 

 and the face of nature was a "gray and melancholy waste," 

 a flock of birds settled in the top of a dead cedar that stood 

 near our camp. They were like so many exquisite gems, found 

 ready cut and polished in a desert of rocks; and the whole 

 camp quickly turned out to admire the exquisite creatures at 

 short range. They were Bohemian Waxwings. 



I think that the Bohemian Waxwing, when alive and in 



1 Am-pcl'is gar-ru'lus. Length, 8 inches. 



