. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . display great cunning and courage; as theyhave weak feet, in order to tear their prey to pieces withtheir hooked bill, they impale it upon thorns. They nestin thickets and tangled underbrush, making their nests ofvines, grasses, catkins, etc., matted together into a rudeGrayish white structure. During April or May they lay from four tosix grayish white eggs, spotted and blotched mwith yellowish brown and umber; size .75. 622. Loggerhead
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . display great cunning and courage; as theyhave weak feet, in order to tear their prey to pieces withtheir hooked bill, they impale it upon thorns. They nestin thickets and tangled underbrush, making their nests ofvines, grasses, catkins, etc., matted together into a rudeGrayish white structure. During April or May they lay from four tosix grayish white eggs, spotted and blotched mwith yellowish brown and umber; size .75. 622. Loggerhead Shrike. Lanius ludo-vicianus hidovicianus. Range.—United States, east of the Plains,breeding north to New England and Illinois;winters in Southern States. Like the last but smaller(length 9 inches), not markedbelow and with the earpatches sharply defined. Theynest in hedges or thickly tan-gled brush, showing a pre-dilection for dense thornbushes, where they place Grayish whitetheir piles of weeds, grasses, feathers and rub-bish; the four or five eggs are laid in Aprilor May; they are like those of the last, butsmaller, averaging .96 x .72. 376.
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