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Lan orehlis. 
1892 Mass . 
M arch 9. Joadord .- 
from side to side, at the same time dragging it about 
(NO. 2) 
over the snow which, as I could -plainly see through my glass F ield 
(I was standing within (10.) yards of the spo^t), was now freely Mouse . 
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stained with blood. I could also see the Shrike's mandibles 
work with a vigorous, biting motion, especially when it stopp- 
ed the shaking to rest for a moment. When it finally let go 
its hold the Mouse was evidently dead. The Shrike now looked 
up and seeing me jumped on the Mouse with both feet and flew 
off bearing; it in its claws . Its flight was slow and labored. 
In fact it did not succeed in rising more than two feet above 
the ground and went less than 200 hundred feet before relight- 
ing on the snow. As I again approached it was tearing at the 
Mouse but it stopped as soon as it saw me and flew some fifty 
yards further dropping^ this time # into a thicket of alders. At 
first it laid the Mouse on the snow but after eating away at 
it for several minutes it raised it to a branch a few inches 
above the snow and doubling it oner this so that the head hung 
down on one side, the tail on the other left it for awhile and 
flying to a branch several feet above sat for several minutes 
nearly motionless. Then it returned to the Mouse and taking it 
by the head dragged it up along the branch untiil it came to an 
MsvXi,- angled fork a foot or more above the snow. Through this fork 
it dropped the body,- then, keeping the head above the twigs, it 
drew the neck firmly into the base of the fork at the same 
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