. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 98 BIRDS OF AMERICA What is curious, and rare among birds, the male Phainopepla insists on making the nest himself. He generally allows his mate to come and look on, and greets her with joyous song, but he will not let her touch it till all is done. Sometimes he even drives her awav. When all is ready for sitting, he lets her take her share of the work, but even then he appears to sit as much as she. Mrs. Bailey found a party of these birds on some pepper-trees, and to her we owe most of what we know of their habits. Olive Tiiorne SHRIKES O
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 98 BIRDS OF AMERICA What is curious, and rare among birds, the male Phainopepla insists on making the nest himself. He generally allows his mate to come and look on, and greets her with joyous song, but he will not let her touch it till all is done. Sometimes he even drives her awav. When all is ready for sitting, he lets her take her share of the work, but even then he appears to sit as much as she. Mrs. Bailey found a party of these birds on some pepper-trees, and to her we owe most of what we know of their habits. Olive Tiiorne SHRIKES Order Passcrcs; suborder Osciucs; family Laniida; HAT the Shrikes should be " song birds," will seem incongruous to many who know how they come by their popular name of "Butcher ; But they are so classified by systematic ornithologists, and not without reason; for they not only possess vocal organs, but some of the species actually make use of those organs in producing a sort of warbled song. They are song birds of prey. The Shrike family (Laniidcc) have strongly hooked bills; rather short, rounded wings; the tail is nearly as long as the wing, or often longer, and rounded, graduated, or nearly even, but never forked; the plumage is soft, blended, the head never crested, though the feathers of the crown are sometimes rather longer than usual; the plumage is never with brilliant colors (in the typical members of the group) but with plain gray, brown, or rufous predominating, varied with black and white or pale wine-color; the sexes are usually alike in color and the young always have the plumage barred or transversely streaked. The range of the family includes the northern hemisphere in general and portions of the African and Indo-Malayan regions; in the western hemisphere no sj^ecies are found south of Mexico. The family is rather numerously represented in the Old World, but only one genus and two species occur in America. The Shrikes are peculiar in se
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