I.OCCKWIIKAI* SIIHIKK. 

 Lauius ludoviciauus. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Lcnstli. about eight and one-half inches; extent, eluvon ami 

 i)ne-half; tail, four; above slate-colored; scapulars, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts ligrhter. Below white; pale grayish on sides; 

 Some sj)ecimens have lower parts partly waved with dusky 1 n:'S, 

 but others, especially full-plumaged adults, lack these Knes; 

 feathers about nostrils, lores, broad streak back of eye, and below 

 the eye also, likewise bill and legs (old birds), are black. The 

 wings and tail are black; tips of secondaries (second size quills 

 of wing's) and basal half of primaries (large wing quills) 

 white. Tail feathers as in the Northern Shrike are marked 

 with white. 



Habitat, — More southern portions of Eas.tern United States; 

 north regularly to Southern Illinois, Central Ohio, Northwest- 

 ern Pennsylvania, etc. In Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, 

 this species and also the variety called White-rumpcd is seldom 

 met with. 



The Loggerhead iShrike is a common .suinmiT bird 

 ill Kric and Crawfoi-d counties. It is said to bicid .ilsiv 

 ill Lawrence, Mercer and so'ine other of the couiilics in 

 AX'cstciii IN'iiiisyivaiiia. Tiic following irimnks i-oii 

 cTniiio lliis liulciicr liiid, ;is il il U-^{ known lo fariM 

 crs and noiillrcrs in llic Kiic n-ioii. aiv lal<.Mi fn.in 



"Erie City. May 20. 1SS9. To-day Mr. Geo. B. Sennett and I 

 drove out about three miles east of the city; and on the road 

 sh<rt three adult Shrikes (two males and female), and secured 

 their nest.<i and young. 



THK NEST. EOGS .AND YOUNG. 



Both nests were built in thorn trees. One nest in a field 

 near the edge of a woods contained four young, two or three 

 days old. and two eggs. The other nest was situated about 

 four and a half feet from the ground, directly over a cow- 

 path in a meadow; it had evidently been disturbed as it was 



