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 
Tue Bonemian Waxwinc.'—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 ourcamp. 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-pel'is gar-ru'lus. Length, 8 inches. 
