Lanius borealis . 
Concord, Mass. 
1398. 
Catches a flying insect. 
As we were crossing Benson' s pasture we saw a Shrike 
March 21. perched on an apple tree. A moment later he started and flew 
directly towards us shimming close over the ground. When 
within a few rods he cheched his speed evidently with the in- 
tention of alighting out at the same instant a large insect, 
probably a beetle, and no doubt the object that had attracted 
his attention, rose in a spiral to a height of three or four 
feet when it was caught by the Shrike who followed its course 
with remarkable accuracy and overtook and seized it wion the 
greatest apparent ease searing it off in his sill to a fence 
post near at hand. 
1899. 
Nov. 1-11 . 
Also 21 , 
23 & 26. 
Shrikes were apparently as scarce this autumn as 
they were last year. I saw only one during the present month, 
a brownish-colored bird, near the West Bedford station, on 
the 6th. 
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