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Food of the Great Northern Shrike. 
My theory (slight proof), that how the Shrike 
obtains what few insects and worms they may 
get in winter (not in October, for in this month 
they might get plenty of insect food in freshly 
plowed fields), is this : During the winter 
months farmers are engaged, more or less, 
cutting wood and chopping down useless fruit 
trees. The woods are thinned out so much 
that dying or dead trees are used mostly. In 
cutting and splitting such timber, the grubs 
and beetles are exposed. 
1 agree witli Mr. Gaboon that Tern draw up 
their feet when flying. I have noticed it in two 
species of Tern, and more particularly with the 
Herring Gull. During cold snaps they hover 
over the river, oftentimes clearing the bridges 
by less than thirty feet. 
If Mr. Arthur II. Howell will refer to the 
Laws of State of New York, 188(5, page (169, 
chapter 427, he will gain the desired informa- 
tion regarding a permit. Most respectfully, 
TJ. I). Stone. 
Oswego, N. \.fa (P XW. *ttr Hfef. A.<?/ 
Birds Tioga GO, NJ‘, Aidsa ^cring , 
~ j 48 . Great Northern Shrike or Butcher Bird. 
Common, hut only as a winter visitor. Then- 
food at this time consists of Sparrows and 
other small birds. I once shot one which had 
.... ■■ -- 1 Vin.rl its head nearly 
Northern Shrike. 
BY C. C. MAXWELL. 
December 17, 1888, I 
din placed in the crotch 
gt from the ground. On 
it might be the work of 
i steel trap on the re- 
BY It. R. TAYLOR, ALA 1 V, 
While out on a ramble near 
in May, 1887, I had the good 
a nest of the Wiiite-t, ailed Kite (I 
It was in the very topmost hr- 
oak, thirty feet above grounc 
four beautiful eggs which w 
incubated. Several writers ha 
this kite always builds a new 
but in this instance the nest 
ably an old one which the ibii 
by the addition of a few flea 
Tiie Kite had risen from th 
proached, and flown majesties! 
trees and out of sight, but iJcf 
nonohml ai 
Referring to Mr. John C. Gaboon's article, 
July O. & O. “Food of the Great Northern 
Shrike,” the sentence to which Mr. Cahoon 
probably refers is this; — “The Shrike at 
Phoenix, N. Y. is a bird very hard to find in 
summer, although occasionally seen, but in 
winter are rather common, and t can say from 
observation that their food seems to be, prin- 
cipally, English Sparrows.” 
- That is, their food, in winter , seems to be, 
principally, English Sparrows. By this I do 
not mean that their food, all the year, is Eng- 
lish Sparrows, but only as far as iny observa- 
tions go in winter. It would certainly be com- 
mitting a falsehood to say that their food, in 
summer, is English Sparrows, when 1 have no 
chance to observe them and satisfy myself as 
to their summer food. I have no record of see- 
ing more than two or three of them in summer 
all through the five or six years that 1 collected 
at Phoenix. 
The winter in Oswego County is severe 
enough to drive all the bugs and worms out of 
sight and no doubt the Shrikes were, driven to 
eating English Sparrows by hunger, but they 
did it, nevertheless. No doubt in a vicinity 
where there are bugs and worms in sufficient ' " u * °* my ieao ie 
quantities the Shrikes would choose and eat 
them in preference to Sparrows. 
The only other collector near Phoenix, N. Y. 
who can bear me out in my assertions, is Mr. 
Benj. F. Hess, who, in Vol. 12, pp. Il l, writes 
of shooting a Shrike while in the act of pursu- y assertl0ns 1,1 prev,ous 
ing a phoebe (pevvee) through bushes, and he 
also speaks of their destroying Sparrows. 1 
will ask Mr. Hess to give his later observations 
to the readers of the Q. &. O. 
Q.&Q. XIII.Septoa8AJ2 1 i34jiyj’^ 7 
1090, 
rd. 1 did not visit the 
en I found the robin torn 
orthern Shrike dangling 
ap. This is conclusive 
i was killed and eaten 
re, as parts of the bird 
aoh of the shrike. The 
no snow on the ground, 
id might have been oh- 
|9, while passing over a 
pntion was attracted to 
air about 20 feet from 
jted down within a foot 
[tin poised itself, then 1 
Inise (Arrieola riparoust ) 
combat the shrike, but 
iving all the advantage 
led the mouse, and then 
away a short distance 
,ie mouse, when I inter- 
ing the remaining por- 
sn in previous numbers 
tiie result of close ob- 
elative to the food of tiie 
if New York, and I am 
further evidence that is 
lave further proof from 
gentlemen interested in 
(insider that the greater 
g winter in our section 
mals. Benj. F. lie: s-s. 
