CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 



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The nest was composed of sticks, strips of bark, grass and some soft 

 vegetable matter, lined with grass. Eggs, four; greenish-gray, very 

 thickly spotted with reddish-brown and purphsh. (G. R. White.) 

 I met with this bird breeding some years ago on the Island of Mont- 

 real, Que. The nest, built in a large thorn bush that grew among 

 some elms, was nearly finished on the 17th April; on the 26th, it 

 contained seven eggs, incubation commencing. The birds were 

 wild and alighted on the top branches of the elms. The nest was 

 compact and very firm ; built of sticks and thorn twigs outside and 

 lined with grass, bits of rag, hair and feathers. At the time the nest 

 was building there was still a great deal of ice in the river, and snow 

 in places two feet deep. (Rev. C. J. Young.) On June nth, 1901^ 

 at Crescent lake, Sask., I came across a nest and six eggs of the 

 northern shrike, and secured the parent bird. The nest was built 

 in a fire-killed willow at the edge of a bluff looking out over the 

 prairie and built about five feet from the ground. The nest is a 

 fine specimen, well built, about nine inches in diameter, and com- 

 posed externally of twigs and willow leaves. The centre is deep and 

 well felted with down and animals' fur, and the eggs are larger than 

 those of the white-rumped shrike. I have another large well-built 

 nest and six eggs that Mr. Wenman took at Spotted lake, northern 

 Alberta, on June 7th, 1897. This nest was also built in a willow 

 seven feet from the ground. (W. Raine.) 



622c. Migrant Shrike. 



Lanius ludovicianus migrans W. Palmer. 1898. 



A rare summer resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B.; it 

 bred here in 1900; have seen five young with one pair of adults. (W. 

 H. Moore.) This bird is sometimes seen in Quebec, (Dionne.) A 

 common summer resident at Montreal; breeds within the city limits. 

 (Wintle.) A rare summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) This bird appears to be more common or at any rate has 

 been noticed more during the last two years in the neighbourhood of 

 Ottawa. During August and September, 1903, I saw several pairs 

 and their young in March township, and saw one pair building their 

 nest near Janeville, on the Rideau river, in April, 1903. On April 

 the 6th, 1904, saw the first pair for this year, and on April the i8th, 

 saw five pairs along the Rideau, between Cumming's and Billing's 

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