The shrikes are hawklike in appearance and in habits, having a hooked beak and sharp claws. They impale their prey on thorns of hedges and trees.
Buel P. Colton, Zoology: Descriptive and Practical (Boston:D.C. Heath & Co., 1903) 240
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