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Rough- winged Swallow in Connecticut. — Although not given 
by Samuels as a bird of New England, and classed as “ a rare summer 
visitant ” by C. H. Merriam in his “ Birds of Connecticut,” the Rough- 
winged Swallow breeds regularly in this State. It has nested for the 
past three seasons in the old stone abutments at a road-crossing over the 
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, within eight or ten rods of 
the depot at Green’s Farms, twenty-six miles west of New Haven. Half 
a dozen pairs nested there last season, and perhaps more ; but, judging 
from the number seen, I should say there were fewer than during the 
season of 1877. I have been unable to account for the fact that more 
than thirty trains could pass within six or eight feet of their nests each 
day, and not drive them away or apparently disturb them in the least. — 
J. A. Stannis, Hartford, Conn. 
The Loggerhead Shrike ( Collurio ludovicianus ) breeding in 
Northern New England. — On the 5th of May, 1877, Mr. C. A. 
Morse, of Bangor, procured, near that city, the parent bird, nest, and 
four eggs of what he supposed to be the Great Northern Shrike, and 
which was so described in the “ Oologist.” Without suspecting the in- 
correctness of this identification, I wrote to Mr. Harry Merrill of that 
city for full particulars of this interesting find, which he has very kindly 
given me in full. The parent of Mr. Morse’s nest was fortunately pro- 
curable, and was sent to me. I have submitted it to Mr. Ridgway’s ex- 
amination. The result is that the nest and eggs procured by Mr. Morse 
near Bangor were those of the typical Collurio ludovicianus. No au- 
thentic instance could be ascertained by Mr. Merrill where the borealis 
had been known to breed near that city, but of the six nests found within 
the past two years, the parents of which were procured, all were like the 
specimen sent me for identification. 
In the summer of 1877 I received a set of eggs, sent me as those of 
the Great Northern Shrike, from Rutland, Yt. Making further investi- 
gations in regard to the particulars of a matter so replete with interest, by 
the aid of Mr. Jenness Richardson of that city, I have received here also 
one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised 
to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not borealis or excubitoroides, that 
is the species referred to. In regard to the parent of the nest found by 
Mr. Richardson. Mr. Rid g way writes me that “it is again ludovicianus, 
but approaching very decidedly the excubitoroides type ; in fact it is quite 
as ‘typical’ of the latter as a great many Western specimens.” 
Mr. Richardson has furnished, me with the particulars of four nests of 
this species found in that region, one near Castleton, and three in and 
about Rutland. So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances 
of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly 
of the New England States. — T. M. Brewer, Boston, Mass. 
Capture of the Loggerhead Shrike in Winter in New Hamp- 
shire. — Another late and northern record of the Loggerhead Shrike 
