Additional Record of the Loggerhead Shrike in Maine. — My 
correspondent Mr. H. R. True has loaned me a fine specimen of Lanius 
ludovicianus (strongly approaching the excubitorides type), which was taken 
at Abbott, 25th May, 1878. The nest of this specimen was also found 
built in an apple-tree, and contained four eggs. — Rutiiven Deane, 
Cambridge, Mass. Bull. N. O.O. 5, Jan. , 1880, p« 3 0 
Notes from Maine. 
Johnii. Goodale. Saco, Me, 
In writing before of the Loggerhead Shrike, 
I intended to say that on April 21, 1891, I 
shot a fine specimen, which is now in the 
collection of Rev. Mr. J. B. Caruthers, of Ber- 
lin Falls, New Hampshire. The bird was 
all alone and seemed to be looking for prey 
of some sort when I shot it. 
John L. Goodale. 
Saco, Me. 
0.& Q.V 01 . 18, Sept. 1898 P.129 
Notes from Maine. 
" John L. Goodale. Saco," Me, 
One day during last May I was told that a 
boy had collected a set of Mocking-bird’s 
eggs. I immediately went to see him and 
was shown an egg. It was one of four, the 
others having been swapped off, as he told 
me, and they looked to me, so far as I could 
remember, much like the Mocking-bird’s 
eggs that I had in my collection. He had 
destroyed the nest and refused to tell me 
where he had found the birds; but I told 
him to look out well for a second set, and to 
let me collect it, as I wished to get birds and 
all. When I next saw him, however, he said 
that he had already collected the second set 
and was saving them for me. I got the eggs 
and also the nest, but the birds were nowhere 
to be seen. On closely comparing the eggs 
with those of the Mocking-bird’s, I found 
them entirely different, but not so much so 
as to make me think them anything else. 
Only a week after I found out that I had 
made a bad mistake, for I found a pair o* 
Loggerhead Shrikes around the place where 
the nest had been. The four eggs, when 
compared with a set of the White-rumped, 
showed no difference at all. The nest was 
declared a Shrike’s on first seeing it and 
without being told about it by a friend, who 
is verv familiar with the breeding of the 
White-rumped. It was placed in the middle 
of a field about seven feet up in an apple 
tree. It is made of horse-hair, cow-hair, cot- 
ton, twigs, grass, string and feathers, one of 
which on the bottom (outside) of the nest 
looks as if it may have come from one of the 
birds. 
O. A O. VoL 18, Sept. 1893 p. 129 
