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General Notes. 



r Auk 

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ering of the bill persists at the base in the form of a triangle, the apex ex- 

 tending .31 inch along the culmen; this portion thus showing much the 

 shape of a normal maxilla. On the rest this outer laver has disappeared, 

 doubtless from effort of the bird to scoop up food. Mr. Verrill said he 

 saw it attempt to pick up pieces of cracker in this manner. 



Of the mandible only a fragment .28 inch long (measured from the com- 

 missural angle) at the base of the left ramus is present, the rest having 



been lost through some accident. The wound had healed, leaving the 

 tongue exposed. Most of the feathers on the upper throat and malar re- 

 gion have been worn away, and the plumage in general was dirty, rum- 

 pled and matted, as the bird was of course unable to preen. The body was 

 emaciated, but there was a little subcutaneous fat, and a partial molt was 

 in progress. The stomach contained a little white sand, and a soft, whit- 

 ish substance, probably cracker. 



That this bird in its crippled condition after the loss of the mandible 

 succeeded in living the time necessary for the great overgrowth of the 

 maxilla seems to me very remarkable. Mr. W. H. Hoyt of Stamford has 

 shown me a mounted Parrot {Amazona leucocephala) in which the mandible 

 had grown over the maxilla and extends for more than one third of an inch 

 upwards, but this bird lived in captivity. — Louis B. Bishop, M. D., New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The Loggerhead Shrike in New Brunswick. — On different occasions 

 broods of young shrikes have been seen near here, and the writer always 

 supposed they were the Northern Shrike [Lanius borealii), as that was 

 the only species of shrike in Chamberlain's list of New Brunswick Birds. 

 But two years ago on writing to Mr. F. M. Chapman of their occurrence, 

 he suggested that they were Luniiis ludoviciauuf. Since that date no 

 young have been observed, but during the past summer, at two different 

 times, shrikes were seen that, I was most certain, were the Loggerhead, 



