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mind. They perch closely together,sitting quietly, but raising and lower- ing the crest interrogatively. At certain seasons, usually late summer, they are active as Flycatchers, and may then be seen darting out into the air and swinging back to the starting point,
Sang-7.;Our Cedar Waxwing is practically songless. A wheezy whistle. usually uttered as the birds take flight, is its principal note.
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Range.—Only two of the some 200 species belonging to this family are found in America, its remaining representatives being distributed over the greater part of the eastern hemisphere. V
Sea:an.——Out winter Shrike is the Northern or Butcher Bird which comes in October and remains until spring. In the summer we may look
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for the Loggerhead, a bird of peculiar distribution which breeds in the South Atlantic States and the Mississippi Valley and eastward through cenr ttal and northern New York to northern New England‘ but is found only as a migrant from southern New England to Virginia
Calvin—Our two Shrikes are much alike in color, being grayish above and
