CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 595 
The nest was composed of sticks, strips of bark, grass and some soft 
vegetable matter, lined with grass. Eggs, four; greenish-gray, very 
thickly spotted with reddish-brown and purplish. (G. R. White.) 
I met with this bird breeding some years ago on the Island of Mont- 
real, Que. The nest, built in a large thorn bush that grew among 
some elms, was nearly finished on the 17th April; on the 26th, it 
contained seven eggs, incubation commencing. The birds were 
wild and alighted on the top branches of the elms. The nest was 
compact and very firm; built of sticks and thorn twigs outside and 
lined with grass, bits of rag, hair and feathers. At the time the nest 
was building there was still a great deal of ice in the river, and snow 
in places two feet deep. (Rev. C. J. Young.) On June 11th, rgor, 
at Crescent lake, Sask., I came across a nest and six eggs of the 
northern shrike, and secured the parent bird. The nest was built 
in a fire-killed willow at the edge of a bluff looking out over the 
prairie and built about five feet from the ground. The nest is a 
fine specimen, well built, about nine inches in diameter, and com- 
posed externally of twigs and willow leaves. The centre is deep and 
well felted with down and animals’ fur, and the eggs are larger than 
those of the white-rumped shrike. I have another large well-built 
nest and six eggs that Mr. Wenman took at Spotted lake, northern 
Alberta, on June 7th, 1897. This nest was also built in a willow 
seven feet from the ground. (W. Raine.) 
622c. Migrant Shrike. 
Lanius ludovicianus migrans W. PALMER. 1808. 
A rare summer resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B.; it 
bred here in 1900; have seen five young with one pair of adults. (W. 
H. Moore.) This bird is sometimes seen in Quebec. (Dionne.) <A 
common summer resident at Montreal; breeds within the city limits. 
(Wintle.) A rare summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Vol. V.) This bird appears to be more common or at any rate has 
been noticed more during the last two years in the neighbourhood of 
Ottawa. During August and September, 1903, I saw several pairs 
and their young in March township, and saw one pair building their 
nest near Janeville, on the Rideau river, in April, 1903. On April 
the 6th, 1904, saw the first pair for this year, and on April the 18th, 
saw five pairs along the Rideau, between Cumming’s and Billing’s 
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