The Loggerhead Shrike in New Brunswick. — On different occasions 
broods of young shrikes have been seen near here, and the writer always 
supposed they were the Northern Shrike (Lanius borealis), as that was 
the only species of shrike in Chamberlain’s list of New Brunswick Birds. 
But two years ago on writing to Mr. F. M. Chapman of their occurrence, 
he suggested that they were Lanius ludoviciamis. Since that date no 
young have been observed, but during the past summer, at two different 
times, shrikes were seen that, I was most certain, were the Loggerhead, 
but having no gun I was unable to obtain a specimen for close inspection. 
On the 15th of January while calling on a taxidermist friend, I saw what 
was without a doubt a Loggerhead Shrike, that had been taken near here, 
yet he did not know it to be anything uncommon, as he is very poorly 
informed in ornithology. This is probably a new addition to the birds of 
New Brunswick, and for which a keen lookout will be kept in future — 
Wm. H. Moore, Scotch Lake, York Co., N. B. 
Auk, XVIII, April., 1901, 
The Migrant Shrike ( Lanius ludovicianus migrans) at Ottawa, Ont. — 
This shrike is a common breeder here. In 1904 I saw the first ones, 
a pair, on April 5, and this year on March 30. They frequent wet 
meadows, old fields, etc. By the middle of April they are common. 
The last one in 1904 I saw August 23, when I was attracted to a hedge 
by the low but pretty singing of a bird, which proved to be the shrike. 
The song was much like the subdued song of the Catbird, with much of 
its sweetness. Although those that I took had beetles only in their 
stomachs, yet on April 26, 1904, I saw a pair that had a Song Sparrow 
impaled on a thorn and had eaten off the head. May 10 I found the first 
nest in the usual thorn-thicket in a moist meadow, containing two eggs. 
May 21, I found another nest at Cassehnan, thirty miles east of Ottawa ; 
this was eight feet up in a little wild plum tree and contained five young 
about a day old and one infertile egg. The female, in both cases, would 
only fly away when the person was within a few feet of the nest, and 
would sit near by and utter queer rasping or gurgling notes of protest. — 
C. W. G. Eifrig, Ottawa , Ont. „ 
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