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mind They perch closely together, sitting quietly, but raising and lower- 

 ing the crest interrogatively. At certain seasons, usually late summer, they 

 are active as Flycatchers, and may then be seen darting out into the air 

 and swinging back to the starting point. 



& „£ — Our Cedar Waxwing is practically songless. A wheezy whistle, 

 usually uttered as the birds take flight, is its principal note. 



Family io. Shrikes. Laniida. 



Range -Only two of the some 200 species belonging to this family are 

 found in America, its remaining representatives being distributed over the 

 greater part of the eastern hemisphere. - 



Season.-Oar winter Shrike is the Northern or Butcher Bird which 

 comes in October and remains until spring. In the summer we may look 



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CEDAR WAXWING. Family AmpeUdce 

 One-third natural size 



for the Loggerhead, a bird of peculiar distribution which breeds in the 

 South Atlantic States and the Mississippi Valley and eastward through cen- 

 tral and northern New York to northern New England, but is found only 

 as a migrant from southern New England to Virginia. 



Co/or ._Our two Shrikes are much alike in color, being grayish above and 



