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barren hillsides of Great Neck, in Ipswich. With them were a number of Tree 

 Swallows and a few Barn and Eave Swallows. In the report of Mr. E. H. For- 

 bush^ on the Destruction of Birds by the Elements in 1903-04, he says, in 

 speaking of the storm of June, 1903 : " Bank Swallows and Eave Swallows were 

 not generally common in this State before the storm ; they have been less com- 

 mon since. It has been said there are no Bank Swallows in Essex County." 

 They were certainly diminished in numbers in the summer of 1903, but the 

 flock seen in July, 1904, would seem to show that they were recovering. How 

 many of these breed inside the limits of the County I cannot say. 



254 [618] Ampelis garrulus (Linn.). 

 Bohemian Waxwing. 



Accidental visitor from the north. 



A female was taken at Lynn, on February i8th, 1877, by N. Vickary^; 

 the specimen is now in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 at Cambridge. There are a number of other records of this bird for the State. 



255 [619] Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.). 



Cedar Waxwing; Cedar-bird; "Cherrv-bird." 



Permanent resident, common in summer, uncommon in winter. 



Eggs: May 30 to July. 



The wild black or rum cherry, of whose fruit this bird is especially fond, is 

 a very abundant tree in Essex County. 



256 [621] Lanius borealis Vieill. 

 Northern Shrike ; Butcher-bird. 



Not uncommon winter visitor, most uncommon in the autumn ; October 14 

 to May. 



1 E. H. Forbush : 51st Ann. Report of Mass. State Board of Agriculture, p. 479, 1904. 

 ^ J. A. Allen : Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 10, p. 15, 1878. 



