...An executioner by birth, the Shrike or "Butcher Bird"evidently pursues his calling with no regrets and whenspring time approaches adds his voice to the chorus of birdsong... 
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...I know alady who fed bits of raw meat to a wounded shrike from the tines of afork, the best substitute for a thorn she could find, because he foundit awkward to eat from a dish...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...You remember that the blue jay has the thrifty habit of storing nutsfor the proverbial rainy day, and that the shrike hangs up his meat tocure on a thorn tree like a butcher...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Our Northern Shrike, or Butcherbird, feeds chiefly on small birdsand mice, while the southern species, or Loggerhead, is a great destroyerof grasshoppers and he also eats lizards and small snakes...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...California Shrike (L...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...It is unusual to see a shrike at as high an elevation as 6000feet...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...As its name indicates, the black-headed shrike (L...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...vittatus) andthe rufous-backed shrike (L...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...An amiable trait in the character of this Shrike is its attachmentto its mate and young...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...And yet, despite this cruel proceeding,which is an implanted instinctlike that of the dog which buriesbones he never seeks again, there arefew more useful birds than the Shrike...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
...The shrike is called a butcher from his habitof sticking his meat upon hooks and points;further than that, he is a butcher because he devoursbut a trifle of what he slays...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...Fortunatelythe shrike is rare with us; one seldom findshis nest, with poor Chickadee impaled on a sharpthorn near by, surrounded by a varied lot of uglybeetles...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...
There are several species of Shrikes, theThick-headed Shrike, the Great Shrike, and the Red-backedShrike being among these...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...The Shrike believes in a well filled larder, anddoes not proceed to eat his game until he has a good stock...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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