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Definition of Shrikes
1. shrike [n] - See also: shrike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrikes
Literary usage of Shrikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds in Their Relations to Man: A Manual of Economic Ornithology for the by Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn (1903)
"THE shrikes, OR BUTCHER-BIRDS. IT is difficult to arrive at a ... Besides the
small native birds that are thus destroyed, the shrikes are known to attack ..."
2. Birds in Their Relations to Man: A Manual of Economic Ornithology for the by Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn (1903)
"IT is difficult to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion concerning the economic
status of our North American shrikes (Lani- idce), of which there are two ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"The shrikes, numbering about two hundred species, are largely confined to the
Old World. Only two species are found in America, both members of the ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"The group of birds chosen for this purpose is the shrikes of the Lanius ...
A Quantitative Study of Variation in the Smaller North-American shrikes. ..."
5. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"Collector, Horace Gaylord. [Light gray.] shrikes. ... All shrikes are similar in
nature and plumage, being grayish above and white below, with black wings, ..."
6. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"All shrikes are similar in nature and plumage, being grayish above and white
below, with black wings, tail and ear patches, and with white outer tail ..."
7. Western Birds by Harriet Williams Myers (1922)
"While the normal food of Loggerhead shrikes is insects, they sometimes indulge
in mice and birds. ..."
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