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of Mr. Grace, gives Whitby Locks as a locality where 
the bird has been observed,! and Mr. L. H. Grindon 
states that one was seen at Cheadle about 1850.2 
There is a specimen from Middlewich in the War- 
rington Museum. 
Dr. Dobie cites four occurrences of the species in 
the Chester district. In December 1886 a bird was 
captured in a hawk-trap in Delamere Forest, and is 
now in the Grosvenor Museum; two others were shot, 
at Eaton Kennels and Stanlow respectively ; and one 
was obtained by Mr. Beckett at Dodleston on 
November 9th, 1893.8 
RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
LANIUS COLLURIO, Linnzus. 
The Red-backed Shrike is an irregular summer 
visitor to Cheshire. Mr. H. E. Smith records a nest 
near Claughton in 1863;* and Brockholes, writing in 
1874, stated that ‘a pair of these birds reared five 
young ones a few years ago near Bidston.’® Mr, 
Sidney Cummings informed Dr. Dobie that he had 
occasionally seen the bird in the fields by the Dee 
Cop, Chester; and Mr. R. Newstead found it nesting 
at Ince in 1883.° Mr. W. Bell tells us that a pair bred 
at Leasowe in 1892. 
In all these instances the Red-backed Shrike has 
occurred near the coastline, and we know of only one 
occasion on which it has been observed inland. Mr. 
H. H. Corbett informs us that a pair nested, about the 
year 1869, in a roadside hedge at Alderley. 
1 Byerley, op. cit. p. 11. 2 Country Rambles, 2nd edit. p. 286. 
5 Dobie, op. cit. p. 294. 4 Smith, op. cit. p. 243. 
> Brockholes, op. cit. p. 5. & Dobie, op. cit. p. 294. 
