Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — The Work of the Butcher Bird. [ARTICLE]

The Work of the Butcher Bird.

While Dr. J. T. Metcalfe was out on one of his hunts in the country, he came across a sparrow which had been decapitated and transfixed on a thorn. It seems that this sparrow had fallen a victim to a rapacious bird, known as the “butcher bird,” which strikes its prey with its beak, kills it, pulls off its nead and impales it on a thorn or twig for greater convenience in pulling it to pieces. Dr. Metcalfe, although an industrious huntsman, and familiar with all kinds of birds, says he never before had an actual evidence of the habits of the butcher bird or shrike, of' r which there are more than fifty varieties. — Thomasville (Ga.) Enterprise. Some men are born slight, some achieve slightness, but most men havs slights put upon them.