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tawa, October 18. Ohio — Salem, November 20. New York — Orient, 

 December 9. Pennsylvania — State College, November 17. New 

 Brunswick — Scotch Lake, October 14. Maine — ^Lewiston, Novem- 

 ber 24. 



The majority of the returns of banded shrikes have been at or near 

 the place of banding. A few recovered at distant points may be 

 quoted. One banded at Carmangay, Alberta, on June 25, 1933, was 

 killed December 22, 1933, at The Grove, Tex., and another banded 

 at the same place on July 16, 1933, was killed on October 6, 1934, at 

 Granger, Tex. One banded at Amenia, N. Dak., on April 7, 1932, 

 was killed on September 8, 1932, at Chriesman, Tex. A bird banded 

 on June 9, 1929, at Whittemore, Mich., was found on September 5, 

 1929, at Ramer, Ala. A bird banded as an adult was killed at the 

 same station five years later, being then at least six years old. 



Casual records. — The loggerhead shrike is reported as of accidental 

 occurrence on Andros Island, Bahamas. A specimen collected at 

 Churchill, Manitoba, on July 1, 1938, has been determined to be a 

 white-rumped shrike ; a pair of undetermined race bred near Church- 

 ill in 1940. 



Egg dates. — Arizona : 53 records, March 10 to June 17 ; 28 records, 

 April 1 to 26, indicating the height of this season. 



California : 126 records, February 24 to July 1 ; 70 records, March 

 15 to April 15. 



Florida : 44 records, February 19 to July 6 ; 22 records, March 20 

 to April 11. 



Illinois : 90 records, April 4 to July 5 ; 57 records, April 15 to 30. 



New York: 29 records, April 25 to June 28; 18 records, April 25 

 to 29. 



Ontario : 17 records, April 5 to June 2 ; 9 records, May 6 to 9. 



Texas : 11 records, March 23 to June 4; 5 records. May 4 to 26. 



LANIUS LUDOVICIAKUS MIGRANS Palmer 



MIGRANT SHRIKE 



HABITS 



Considerable confusion existed in the minds of the earlier writers 

 on American ornithology as to the subspecific status of the small 

 shrikes of the loggerhead group that breed east of the Mississippi 

 Valley and north of the Gulf States and the Carolinas. The breeding 

 birds of this northeastern section have been referred by various au- 

 thors, from the time of Audubon on, to either the southern loggerhead, 

 the western white-rumped, or even rarely to the large northern shrike, 

 L. horealis. I remember very distinctly submitting a shrike that I 

 shot near Cape Vincent in northern New York, during my youth, to 

 that careful and eminent ornithologist William Brewster; I was in 



