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the 28tli of April, 1856. It was shot by my servant, who described it as being excessively 

 wild and difficult to approach. 



This is the only specimen of the species I have seen, and I consider it therefore accidental 

 west of the Cascade mountains. — S. 



Family L A NI ID A E .— T h e Shrikes. 

 COLLYRIO BOREALIS, Baird. 



Great Northern Slirike ; Biitclier Bird. 



Lanim septentrional^, Bon. Syn. 1828, 72.— Bon. List. 1838.— In. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, 294. — Ncitall, Man. I, 



1832, 258.— Ib. I, 2d ed. 18i0, 285. (Not ef Gmelin.) 

 Laniua borealis, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sep. I, 1807, 90; pi. I.— Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 111.— AuD. Syn. 1839, 157. — 



Ib. Birds Amer. IV. 1842, 130; pi. 236. 

 Lanim excuhUor, Foester, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 382.— Wilson, I, 1808, 74; pi. v. f. 1.— Bon. Obs. 1826.— AuB. 



Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 534; pi. 192. 

 Collyrio borealis, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 324. 



Sp. Ch. — Above light bluish ash, obscurely soiled with reddish brown. Forehead, sides of the crown, scapulars, and upper 

 tail coverts hoary white. Beneath white, the breast with fine transverse lines. Wings and tail black; the former with a 

 white patch at base of primaries and tips of small qiiUls; the latter with the lateral feathers tipped with white. Bill blackish 

 brown; considerably lighter at the base. Black stripe from the bill through .and behind the eye, but beneath the latter 

 interrupted by a whitish crescent. Female and young with the gray soiled with brownish. Length, 9. 85; i^ngs, 4. 50; tail, 

 4.80; its graduation, . 90. 



Length, 10| inches; extent, 14J inches; feet, black; bill, brownish black. 



Hab. — Northern regions, from Atlantic to Pacific; in winter south, through most of the United States. 



The northern shrike is onlj- a winter resident in the Territory, appearing along the coast in 

 November and remaining until March. It frequents bushy places, and seems to live chiefly on 

 insects. I never saw them attack small birds, though often in company with them. — C. 



I obtained one specimen of this shrike at St. Mary's valley, "Washington Territory, in 1853. 

 As a group the butcher birds are but poorly represented in number in Oregon or Washington 

 Territories. — S. 



Sub-Family VIREONINAE — The Greenlets. 

 VIREO GILVUS, Bonap. 



AVarbllug Flycatcher. 



Musciaipa gilva, Vieillot, Ois. I, 1807, 65; pi. xxxiv. 



ririogUvus, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 123.— Nurr. I, 1832, 309.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834: 114; V. 1839 



433; pi. 118.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 149; pi. 241.— Baird, Gen. Kep. Birds, p. 335. 

 Muscicapa melodia, Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 85; pi. 42, fig. 2. 

 Sp, Ch.— Third, fourth, and fifth quills nearly equal ; second and sixth usually about equal, and about . 25 of an inch 

 shorter than third; the exposed portion of spurious quill about one-fourth the third. Above greenish olive; the head and 

 hind neck ashy, the back slightly tinged with the same. Lores dusky; a white streak from the base of the upper mandible 

 above and a little behind the eye; beneath the eye whitish. Sides of the head pale yellowish brown. Beneath white, tinged 

 with very pale yellow on the breast and sides. No light margins whatever on the outer webs of the wings or tail. Length 

 .about 5 50 inches; extent, 8. 50; wings nearly 3. Spurious primary one-fourth the length of second. Iris, brown; feet 

 slate color; bill, brown. 



Hah. — Atlantic to Pacific coast of the United States. 



I did not notice the arrival of the warbling vireo, near Puget Sound, until about the middle 

 of May, but it was quite common afterwards. Its song, more lively than in other species, was 



