82 Birds Every Child Should Know 
song some morning in early spring. Before we 
become familiar with it, however, the wander- 
ing minstrel is off to the far north to nest within 
the arctic circle. It is only in winter that the 
northern shrike visits the United States, travel- 
ling as far south as Virginia and Kansas between 
October and April. He is larger than the log- 
gerhead, being a little over ten inches long, a 
goodlooking winter visitor in a gray suit with 
black and white trimmings on his wings and tail 
and wavy bars on his breast. Bradford Torrey 
used to visit a vireo that would drink water 
from a teaspoon which he held out to her while 
she sat brooding on her nest. I know a lady 
who fed bits of raw meat to a wounded shrike 
from the tines of a fork, the best substitute 
for a thorn she could find, because he found it 
awkward to eat from a dish. 
THE CEDAR WAXWING 
Called also: Cedarbird; Cherry-bird; Bonnet 
bird, Silk-tail. 
So few birds wear their head feathers crested 
that it is a simple matter to name them by 
their top-knots alone, even if you did not see 
the gray plumage of the little tufted titmouse, 
the dusky hue of the crested flycatcher, the blue 
