. Wild life of orchard and field;. #V:#.. JkiT^ WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD mous number, and keep up the slaughter throughthe whole year; for when the loggerhead-shrikeretreats southward in the autumn, the great North-ern shrike comes from British America to supplyhis place through the winter. Then all the hawks,from the nimble little sharp-shinned to the greatswooping buzzard, prey upon mice, and in winterhover day after day over the knolls where they havebeen driven by floods in the surrounding lowlands,pouncing upon every one that is imprudent enoughto show his black eyes above ground. A
. Wild life of orchard and field;. #V:#.. JkiT^ WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD mous number, and keep up the slaughter throughthe whole year; for when the loggerhead-shrikeretreats southward in the autumn, the great North-ern shrike comes from British America to supplyhis place through the winter. Then all the hawks,from the nimble little sharp-shinned to the greatswooping buzzard, prey upon mice, and in winterhover day after day over the knolls where they havebeen driven by floods in the surrounding lowlands,pouncing upon every one that is imprudent enoughto show his black eyes above ground. As for themarsh-hawk, it regularly quarters the low fieldslike a harrier, and eats little but mice. The owls,too, are constantly after them, hunting them dayand night, on the prairies and in the woods, es-teeming them fine food for the four owlets in thehollow tree hard by; while the sand-hill crane andsome of the herons make a regular business ofseeking the underground homes and digging outthe timorous fugitives with their pick-axe beaks
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