Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1900.
December
(11).
3. Certhia americana fusca.
  One was seen in the lindens on the 23rd.
4.Lanius borealis.
  On the 18th a Northern Shrike appeared in one of the
lindens and for fifteen minutes sang loud and clear. Half an
hour later he sang for ten minutes in the same place. Mr.
Deane says there was much music in the song which resem-
bled in many ways that of a Catbird and a Robin. On the 21st
he saw a Shrike chase, catch, kill, impale and eat an English
Sparrow. Twice after, on the 24th and 29th, the Shrike was
singing in the lindens, and on the 31st he was seen chasing
an English sparrow. Mr. Deane made some peculiarly in-
teresting observations on this Shrike which haunted our garden
and I insert them here in his own words:-
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