1898 
March 21 
Sh] 
Re 
catches 
a flying 
insect 
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As we were crossing Bensen’s pasture we saw a 
Shrike perched on an apple tree. A moment later he started 
and flew directly towards us, skimming close over the ground. 
When within a few rods, he checked his speed, evidently with 
the intention of alighting "but 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 with the greatest apparent ease, bearing it 
off in his bill to a fence post near at hand. 
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