568 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
plement of eggs by the first week in May. If the first nest is des- 
troyed a second nest is built and eggs are laid towards the end of 
May; I have frequently met with the nests; they are common 
about Lansdowne, Ont., on Wolfe Island and in the vicinity of 
Kingston; one nest I found built in a thorn bush about three feet 
from the ground, was completed on 29th April; on the 4th Mayit 
contained five eggs, speckled and zoned and smaller than the 
eggs of L. borealis. The old birds were very tame and did not 
behave in the same way as those of the other species, which latter 
kept far off and perched high up in the trees; there were no large 
trees near this nest May 6th, a nest in a similar location contain- 
ing four fresh eggs; birds were very tame, allowing of my ap- 
proach within a few feet; April 3rd, 1890, I saw a pair of mig- 
rant shrikes, and on the 28th found the nest in a thorn bush, 
containing seven eggs; on the 7th May found another nest with 
five eggs, incubated, built so low in the thorn bush that I could 
look into it when standing on the ground. April 18th, 1892, I 
found a migrant shrike’s nest in a thorn.bush in a pasture 
field, which on the 29th contained six eggs; May 2nd, 1898, found 
a migrant shrike’s nest in a thorn bush with six fresh eggs ; 
April 6th, 1899, I saw a. pair of migrant shrikes, and their 
nest on the 29th April with six eggs, built as usual in a thorn tree 
in a pasture field and no great height from the ground ; I could 
refer to perhaps twenty other instances of this bird breeding as 
above in thorn bushes in pasture fields the last week of April or 
first week in May. (Rev. C.J. Young.) This bird begins its nest 
around Ottawa in April and lays five, six or seven eggs; this 
nest is built in thorn trees or bushes from four to ten feet high, 
and is composed of branches, rootlets and strings, with woolly 
lining united to feathers and hairs. (Garneai.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three specimens; one taken at Scotch Lake, N.B. by Mr. W.H. 
Moore, in 1902; two at Ottawa, April 21st, 1902, by Mr. E. F. G. 
White. 
One set of seven eggs taken at Port Hope, Ont., by Mr. W. H. 
Meeking. Nest ina thorn bush 5% feet from the ground, com- 
posed of rootlets, grass and hairs. 
