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Definition of Migrant shrike
1. Noun. A shrike of central North America; winters in Texas and the southern Mississippi valley.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Migrant Shrike
Literary usage of Migrant shrike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"(622a) Separable from the Loggerhead and migrant shrike only by the expert, ...
The migrant shrike is said to have "darker, duller plumage, ..."
2. Birds of the Kansas City Region by Harry Harris (1919)
"The Northern Shrike is distinctly larger than the migrant shrike, ... The Migrant
Shrike is the breeding form for this district and arrives commonly from ..."
3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"Very rarely indeed I have heard our migrant shrike sing thus and have no doubt its
... The eggs are said to resemble those of the migrant shrike but are ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"migrant shrike is commonest in autumn, scarcest in spring. I have an old record
of May 6, 1887, but now think it was a case of mistaken identity. (j). ..."
5. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1903)
"... adopting for common use the term migrant shrike to cover all differences.
Those whose delight it is to weigh carefully the shades of difference between ..."
6. Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Submitting Outline Plan by Virginia Dept. of public instruction (1911)
"This is the migrant shrike, and a close inspection would show a sharply hooked
... The migrant shrike seldom or never kills small birds, but destroys many ..."
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