ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 87 
mon summer resident.” Springfield: ‘* Abundant summer resident.” 
Templeton: ‘Common summer resident.’? Wellesley. ‘Common 
summer resident.”’ 
237. Lanius borealis Vieill. Great NoRTHERN SHRIKE. 
A regular winter visitant, sometimes common. 
(October 6) October 12 to April 16. 
Amherst: “ Uncommon winter visitor.”’ Berkshire: “ Winter visitant, 
not common.” Bristol County: ‘‘ Not common winter visitant.” Brook- 
line : ‘‘Common winter resident.” Cambridge: Common winter visitant. 
Cohasset : ‘‘ Not rare in winter.”” Dedham: ‘Rather common in the 
winter.” Essex County: ‘“ Winter. Not abundant.’ Ipswich: “ Rather 
common winter visitant.”” Springfield: ‘‘Common winter visitant.” 
Templeton: “Common in winter.” Wellesley: ““Common.... winter 
resident.” 
238. Lanius ludovicianus migrans Palmer. MIGRANT 
SHRIKE. 
A very rare permanent resident. It has been recorded breed- 
ing at Williamstown, and specimens have also been taken at the 
following localities: Amherst, April 11, 18843; Brookline, Febru- 
ary, 1879; Cape Cod at Highland Light, August 22, 1890; 
Framingham, January 29, 1884; Jpswich, March 29, 1892; Lynn, 
November, 1877; Newtonville, 1874, and January 28, 1875; 
Taunton, September 12, 1882; West Newton, October 21, 1872. 
These specimens have been usually recorded as Lanius ludov?- 
clanus excubitorides. 
239. Corvus corax (Linn.). RAveEN. 
An accidental visitant. The records are: Zyngsborough, one 
taken prior to 1859; Springfield, one taken by Mr. C. W. Bennett 
in the autumn of 18593” Dedham, two taken about 1859, one by 
Julius M. Lathrop, the other by Dr. H. F. Aten ;* Wil@iamstown, 
two taken, one “some time since,’”* 1. e. prior to 1877, and one 
with no data;* (orthampton, one taken by Mr. E. O. Damon 
Samuels; Mass. Secy’s Rep. Agric., 1859, p. 193. 
“Allen; Proc. Essex Inst. Vol. IV, 1864, p. 75. 
3 Wakefield; Birds of Dedham, r8qr, p. 72. 
4Tenney; Amer. Nat., Vol. XI, No. 4, Apr., 1877, p. 243 and Brewster; 
Auk, Vol. I, No. 1, Jan., 1884, p. 10. 
