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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 6j October 12 to April 16. 



Amherst: "Uncommon winter visitor." Berkshire: " Winter visitant, 

 not common." Bristol County: " Not common winter visitant." 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 11, 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; 

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

 These specimens have been usually recorded as Lanius ludovi- 

 cianus excicbitorides. 



239. Corvus corax (Linn.) . Raven. 



An accidental visitant. The records are : Tyngsborough, one 

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

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

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

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

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



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

 ^ Allen ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. IV, 1864, p. 75. 1 



3 Wakefield; Birds of Dedham, 1891, p. 72. 



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

 Auk, Vol. I, No. I, Jan., 1S84, p. 10. 



