LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE 



April 24, 1894 

 May 28, 1895 



I NEVER see this shrike here in num- 

 bers, but it is a regular summer resi- 

 dent, and in my drives over the prairies 

 I usually see one or two individuals. 



May 28, 1895. We found five young 

 shrikes, hardly able to fly, in a thorn hedge 

 today. They were lovely little fellows, 

 their plumage as soft as eiderdown, and 

 they huddled close together, three of them 

 on one branch, and looked as innocent of 

 being members of a murderous race as if 

 they were turtle doves. We found the re- 

 mains of a small bird, supposably of a 

 house sparrow, impaled upon a thorn 

 near by their nest. The parent birds were 

 nowhere visible, though we passed the 

 place both morning and afternoon. 



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