52 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



May 19th and depart September 13th, In the south of 

 the county Byerley records it as breeding at Bootle, and 

 Brockholes as at Eainhill (1860), and Mr. Peter Eylands 

 in his " Catalogue " {Naturalist, 1837) gives it as occur- 

 ring at Warrington, &c. Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson says 

 that it bred at Farington and Penwortham twenty years 

 ago, and that it is still found in some numbers, not 

 being at all scarce in the year 1882, in which year also 

 Mr. William Gillett saw both old and young at Midge 

 Hall. At Lytham it has been observed by Mr. J. A. 

 Jackson, and Mr, E. Standen has three times taken the 

 nest, in May 1872, at Haighton, in June 1875, at 

 Broughton, and in May 1878, at Goosnargh. Mr. H. 

 Miller saw this Shrike early in May 1882, at Knott End, 

 near Fleetwood, and was satisfied it was breeding, and 

 has several times seen birds and eggs taken between 

 Preston and Southport. In the Clitheroe district I 

 only know of one occurrence, viz., on June 3rd, 1860, 

 when Mr. J. J. Smithies took a nest (which was in a 

 conspicuous place) and eggs from near Eimington ; but 

 on the other side of Pendle Hill, at Colne, Mr. T. 

 Altham says that, up to a few 3'ears ago, the eggs were 

 taken year after year in a brambly clough there. In 

 Cliviger, Mr. H. Kerr states that he has seen this species 

 once. Dr. Skaife writes (Mag. Nat. Hist., 1838), that 

 in the neighbourhood of Blackburn "this is by no 

 means a rare bird, several specimens being procured 

 every year," and in 1879 he told me that some years 

 before, when walking in Bowland, he came across a 

 thorn-bush, whose spikes were covered with beetles, &c. 

 Mr. W. A. Durnford says that it was once common in 

 Furness, and is still found in the Lake district. Mr. 

 John Hardy tells me that a railway has cut up this 

 Shrike's favourite spot on the south-west side of Man- 



