. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ording to Mr. Otto Widmann,this is the prevailing Shrike at St. Louis, Mo. In the Carolinas and Georgia it is alsocommonly met with, and in many of the orange groves of Florida it is a frequentsummer sojourner, many even remaining through the winter months. The White-RUMPED Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides Coues, inhabits the central regionof North America, north to the Saskatch
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ording to Mr. Otto Widmann,this is the prevailing Shrike at St. Louis, Mo. In the Carolinas and Georgia it is alsocommonly met with, and in many of the orange groves of Florida it is a frequentsummer sojourner, many even remaining through the winter months. The White-RUMPED Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides Coues, inhabits the central regionof North America, north to the Saskatchewan, south over table-lands of Mexico, westto Lower California, Arizona, Nevada, etc., east across great plains, and sporadicallythrough basin of the great lakes to northern New York. (Ridgway.) A third form ofthe Loggerhead, the California Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus gambeli Ridgw., occurs inCalifornia, especially in the coast distridl. The Shrike which we find in Wisconsin and northern Illinois, is the Wisconsin it frequently nests in apple and pear trees, in white-thorns and wild crabtrees, while in northern Illinois it preferably selects for its nesting-site the osage orange fe 1. CYANOCITTA CRISTATA Sli-ickl. 2. MOLOTHRUS ATER Gray. 5 3. „ „ LUDOVICLANUS Lhm. 5. SCOLECOPHAGUS CYANOCEPHALUS Cab. 6. OUrSCALUS QUISCULAAENUS Stejn. 3$DORIMDREHER. ~ Blue Cowbird (Male).I) { Female. ~ Loggerhead Shrike, Brewers BlackbirdBRONZESTARLING. - Bronzed Crackle. LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 317 hedge-rows. In south-western Missouri as well as in Texas I have observed thisButcher-bird. Near Houston I found several nests, and in Fayette, Bastrop, and LeeCounty I also met with the bird during the breeding season, although much less frequentlythan in Wisconsin and Illinois. Everywhere they prefer for nesting places hedge-rowsand gardens. It is partial to those open distridls where plenty of thorny trees aregrowing. Where
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