118 General Notes. 



single instance of its presence near the Massachusetts line has been noted, 

 Mr. E. I. Shores having captured a specimen at Suffield, Conn. — Ruth- 

 VEN Deank, CamhriJfie, Mass. 



The Northern Waxwing (Ampelis garrnlus') in Southern Illi- 

 nois. — Professor S. A. Forbes, Director of the State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, Normal, lUinois,^ communicates, under date of December 

 19, 1879, the following interesting note concerning the occurrence of this 

 Northern species in Pulaski Co., Illinois (lat. a little over 37°), in the 

 extreme southern part of the State. The most southern record, hitherto, 

 for this species, east of the Rocky Mountains, is Fort Riley, Kansas (lat. 

 38|°), and, east of the Mississippi, the vicinity of Philadelphia (lat. 40°).* 

 Professor Forbes's note is as follows : — 



"Perhaps the fact is worth reporting that I shot yesterday [Dec. 18, 

 1879] at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., a fine Bohemian Waxwing, Ampelis 

 garrtihis. The weather was warmish and wet. I saw no other specimen. 

 I came down here chiefly for some Thrushes (Robins, Catbirds, etc.) 

 with a view to study their winter food, but found the country at Cairo, 

 Mound City, etc., almost deserted by them. They are reported by the 

 people to have migrated South in November, apparently because there are 

 no grapes in the bottoms this year." — Rohekt Ridgway, WaMnqlon, 

 D. a 



The Bohemian Waxwing in Northern New York. -- I am 

 indebted to Mr. George A. Davis for information regarding the occurrence 

 of these beautiful birds in Mexico, Oswego Co., N Y. 



He first discovered them January 31, 1880, about a mile from the lake 

 shore, in a section of country where the mountain-ash was abundant. A 

 flock of some two hundred birds were feeding on the berries, in company 

 with the Cedar Birds, and he captured a number. On February 2, he 

 again visited the same locality, and shot twenty-three specimens ; this 

 time no Cedar Birds were seen. After feeding, the flock would retire to a 

 deep swamp, where they would remain until again hungry, when they 

 would return until the berries were nearly exhausted. 



Mr. Davis has never before seen the Waxwings in flocks in his locality, 

 but shot a single specimen in 1876. In all, he shot seventy specimens; 

 and out of some twenty-five which I examined, but few were in full 

 adult plumage. Mr. Boardman writes me, that about a dozen birds in 

 immature plumage were taken near St. Stephens, N. B., early in December, 

 and that he has heard of them occurring all the way from Nova Scotia to 

 Oregon, though I judge not in the southern p%rts of the New England 

 and Middle States. — Ruthven Deane, Camhridge, Mass. 



Breeding of the Loggerhead Shrike at Canton, New York. — 

 On July 23, 1879, I shot a specimen of the Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius 



* The most southern point to which the .species has been traced is Fort Yuma, 

 California, lat. 32i". 



