CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 347 



Family AMPELIDAE Waxivings, etc. 

 301 (618) Bohemian waxwing 



Ampelis garrulus Linn. 



302 (619) Cedar waxwing 



Ampelis cedrorum (Vieill.) 



Family LANIIDAEi Strikes 



303 (621) Northern shrike 



Lanius borealis Vieill. 



304 (622) Loggerhead shrike 



Lanius ludovicianus Linn. 



1 Three species of shrikes have been recognized in New York state, but the status of the forms 

 is not well understood, it often being a matter of difficulty to assign individual specimens to their 

 proper species. William Palmer, after an examination of 176 specimens, proposes to " relegate 

 excubitorides to the plains region west of the immediate Mississippi wooded drainage area, 

 ludovicianus to the south Atlantic and gulf coasts, and Florida, and to recognize a new form 

 (L. 1. migrans) as occupying much of the remaining region of the east." The acceptance of his 

 views has been deferred by the American ornithologists union for lack for material, and so it 

 seems best for the present to let the species stand as given in Auk, 15: 241-58; also 16: 133. 



