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 \vintervisitant." 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 n, 1884; Brookline, Febru- 

 ary, 1879; Cape Cod at Highland Light, August 22, 1890; 

 Framingham, January 29, 1884; Ipswich, March 29, 1892; Lynn, 

 November, 1877 ; Newtonville, 1874, and January 28, 1875 ; 

 launton, September 12, 1882; West Newton, October 21, 1872. 

 These specimens have been usually recorded as Lanius ludovi- 

 ciamis excubitorides. 



239. Corvus corax (Linn.) . RAVEN. 



An accidental visitant. The records are : Tyngs borough, one 

 taken prior to 1859 ; 1 Springfield, one taken by Mr. C. W. Bennett 

 in the autumn of 1859 ; ' 2 Dedham, two taken about 1859, one by 

 Julius M. Lathrop, the other by Dr. H. F. Aten ; 3 Williamstown, 

 two taken, one "some time since," 4 i. e. prior to 1877, and one 

 with no data; 4 Northampton, one taken by Mr. E. O. Damon 



1 Samuels; Mass. Secy's Rep. Agric., 1859, p. 193. 



2 Allen ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. IV, 1864, p. 75. 



3 Wakefield; Birds of Dedham, 1891, p. 7:. 



4 Tenney; Amer. Nat., Vol. XI, No. 4, Apr., 1877, p. 243 and Brewster ; 

 Auk, Vol. 1. No. i, Jan., 1884, p. 10. 



