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knew of another at about the same time. Also on May ly, 1897, 

 on the Vermont side of the Connecticut river, a nest containing 

 one egg and four j^oung birds was found b}^ Mrs. Frost, and in 

 1898, the birds were noticed near the same place. Hollis, one 

 seen by Dr. W. H. Fox on September i, 1885. Intervale, I 

 have twice observed the bird in the Saco valle}^ here ; once on 

 August 25, 1897, when a single bird was seen for a short time 

 on the meadov/s, and again on August 9, 1899, when! watched 

 one for part of an afternoon as it stayed about an old apple or- 

 chard near the river valley. Possibly a pair may have nested 

 here earlier in the season. Jefferson, in an interesting letter on 

 birds observed in this vicinity, Mr. H. W. Wright tells me 

 that " it has been breeding for several years within town limits. 

 A friend living on the road to Jefferson Hill, when I discovered 

 a family of shrikes about his pasture, told me they had nested 

 in the same elm tree in that pasture for 4 or 5 years. In 1899, 

 we obser\?^ed them whenever we drove by throughout the season. 

 This year (1900) they nested farther back and were seen onl}' 

 occasionally on the roadside. I have observed a pair or familj' 

 at three or four other points, in driving, in this vicinity." 

 Lancaster, Mr. F. B. Spaulding finds it a regular summer resi- 

 dent here, where it arrives earty and breeds about the first of 

 May. Northfield, in September, 1897, Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, 

 p. 218) observed one at this town, Taniworth, a single bird 

 was observed on August 16, 1898, by Dr. A. L. Reagh (see 

 Howe, :oi, p. 44). Tilton, according to Mr. Ned Dearborn 

 ('98, p. 28) a nest with eggs was discovered here by Mr. G. H. 

 Davis, in May, 1897. 



From the foregoing, it is plain that this shrike is most com- 

 mon in the valleys of the Connecticut and its larger tributaries, 

 by which it reaches the country slightlj- north of the White 

 Mountains. 



Dates : (January 20, '79) March 20 to September. 



199. Vireo olivaceus (Linn.). Red-eyed Vireo. 



A common summer resident throughout the Transition and 

 sub-Canadian areas, being found from the shade trees of the vil- 



