. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 138 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK wings and tail black and white; under parts grayish-white. Im. in summer. — Top of head and back brownish-gray; breast washed with brownish; black lines hardly extending beyond the eye, and not meeting over the bill. Nest, in a thick bush or tree, often a hawthorn bush. Eggs, whitish, thickly marked witli brown. The Migrant
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 138 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK wings and tail black and white; under parts grayish-white. Im. in summer. — Top of head and back brownish-gray; breast washed with brownish; black lines hardly extending beyond the eye, and not meeting over the bill. Nest, in a thick bush or tree, often a hawthorn bush. Eggs, whitish, thickly marked witli brown. The Migrant Shrike is a not uncommon summer resident of the Lake Champlain Valley. It breeds rarely in the rest of northern New England, and is a very rare migrant in southern New England and the Hudson Valley. Its habit. of perching on the tips of trees or bushes, and its contrasting colors, gray, black, and white, Migrant Shrike ^^^^ .^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^^^ recognize. It feeds on grasshoppers, frogs, and mice, and, to a certain extent, on small birds, and impales its prey on thorns. Its song is described as low and musical, and its call-notes as harsh and unmusical. The ordinary shrike in New England between October and April is the Northern Shrike. The Migrant is over an inch smaller than its rela- tive, and the black marks in front of the eyes meet across the forehead. NoKTHEBN Shrike. Lanius borealis Ad. — Upper parts ash-gray, becoming whitish on the forehead, over the eye, and on the rump; a blackish stripe back of the eye, extending to the base of the bill, but not over it; wings and tail black and white; under parts grayish-white, crossed with dark wavy lines which show only at close range. Im. — Upper parts grayish-brown; wings and tail duller; under parts much more distinctly covered with wavy lines of dark gray. The Northern Shrike is a winter visitant in New York and New England; rare in some years, not uncommon in. Please note that these images are extrac
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