Lanius ludovicianus ml grails. 
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Bethel, Maine. 
1903 
June 5 
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to gain greater force and occasionally stepping to rest for a rno- 
ment. Finally it flew away. On examining the Swallow I found it . 
very firmly fixed with the prong driven through the shin and sur¬ 
face muscles of the breast. From a lower branch of the same wil- 
low A similarly impaled on a short dead prong driven through the 
shin of its nech hung a female Bluebird that had evidently been 
dead several days. It showed no signs of decomi>osition but the 
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eyes had sunk almost out of sight and the flesh on the breast was 
hard and dry. It bore absolutely no signs of external injury and 
no portion of the flesh had been removed while the plumage was 
smooth and perfect. 
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The Swallow was gone at 4 p.m. but the Bluebird remained. 
Just after the Shrihe had left the Swallow impaled on the 
fence stahe it was joined by its mate a larger, longer, lighter- 
colored bird, no doubt the male. In the afternoon I visited the 
place again in company with Dr.Gehring and again found both Shrikes, 
They were never actually together but seeited contented with keep¬ 
ing one another in sight as they sat perched on the fence posts 
or telegraph poles along the roadside sometimes within thirty 
yards of each other. We saw the male fly down to the dusty road 
and pick up what looked like a large beetle and the female pull a 
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quantity of sheep's wool from the side of an empty barrel standing 
in a piece of cultivated ground. After arranging it carefully in 
her bill she took it up the road and into a maple near the one I 
