Brewer.] ° 7 [May 7, 
overlooked in Prof. Verrill’s second list his mention of it, as a bird 
of Maine. It is now said to be an abundant summer resident in the 
vicinity of Portland, to be common near Brunswick, and even to 
reach Calais, though it was not given by Mr. Boardman in his list of 
the birds of that vicinity. It is not known to occur far to the north | 
in the western part of that State. 
Stelgidopteryx serripennis Aud. In my former paper I 
referred to a single specimen as furnishing grounds for placing the 
Rough-winged Swallow among the birds of New England. Mr. J. A. 
Stannis of Hartford (Bulletin rv, p. 112), shows conclusively that 
this species breeds regularly in that State. He found it nesting at 
Green’s Farms, west of New Haven, on the New York and New 
Haven Railroad, in old stone abutments. Though thirty trains a 
day passed within a few feet of their nests, it did not apparently dis- 
turb them in the least. 
Collyrio ludovicianus Baird. One of the most interesting 
and certainly the least anticipated of the discoveries of the year, has 
been the finding of Loggerhead Shrike,—a supposed exclus- 
ively southern species, — breeding in the central portions of Maine 
and Vermont. In the ninth volume of the Pacific Railroad Report, 
the bird is given, by Prof. Baird, as having its habitat in “ the 
South Atlantic and Gulf States.” And throughout the extended in- 
terval of territory between the southern region, where it is abundant, 
and these isolated New England colonies, it is very rarely known to 
occur. Its presence in New England was first publicly noted by Mr. 
H. A. Purdie in 1873, and in 1875 it was included in my catalogue of 
New England birds. Since then many other instances of its occur- 
rence have been noted. In the summer of 1878 I received from Mr. 
H. E. Boughton, what was represented to me as a set of the eggs of 
Collyrio borealis, from Rutland, Vermont, and a single egg said to 
belong to a bird of the same species (though neither proved to be 
borealis), from Mr. Jenness Richardson, also of Rutland, and who — 
regarded the egg as that of C. borealis. Accepting these eggs as 
genuine, I prepared to look up all the evidences of the sup- 
posed instances of the breeding of the Great Northern Shrike within 
the limits of the United States, and Mr. S. L. Willard of Utica, 
N. Y., kindly supplied me with the data of a number of instances 
contributed by various writers to the Oologist. Among these was the 
account of a nest found by Mr. C. A. Morse of Bangor, May 5, 1877. 
Most fortunately, as it proved, my information in regard to this nest 
