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Although the recorded instances of the breeding of the Loggerhead Shrike 
(• Lanins ludovicianus) in New England are rather numerous, the following- 
notes may not be entirely devoid of interest. One rainy day last season 
(June 5 , I 88o) as I was seated on the porch of a neighbor’s house, my atten- 
tion was attracted by a Shrike flying past several times. I watched the bird 
and saw it fly to the top of an old apple tree. The tree was not more than 
t~a)o rods from the house, and was densely overrun with a large grape vine. 
I climbed the tree, a rub about twenty feet from the ground, found the 
nest, and, much to my disappointment, found no eggs, but four nearly 
fledged young. The old birds were very tame, and flew about within a 
few feet of my head. 
This season I visited the locality Maj’ 16, and was fortunate enough to 
find a nest and four fresh eggs. The nest was in an apple tree, perhaps 
three rods from the nest of last year; was composed of coarse sticks and 
weeds, very deeply hollowed, and lined with wool and twine. I took both 
parent birds with the nest, thus rendering the identification positive, 
A few days after this (May 23, 1881) some boys told me they had found 
a “ Cat Bird’s” nest in an apple tree about a mile from the vicinity of the 
other nests. They had climbed the tree, and said “the old bird flew at 
them, and snapped her bill hard !” I knew this to be a Shrike, and, when 
I visited the place, had the pleasure of securing another nest, containing 
six eggs, with the female parent. The nest was much like the other, but 
was perhaps deeper, and lined entirely with feathers. 
BaU. N.O.O, 7,Jao, 1882, p,64 
Summer Bda.Mt, Mansfield, Vt, 
5.2. * Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Migrant Shrike. — Rare and 
local. Mrs. Straw saw young birds June 23, 1896 ; the species nested the 
two following seasons. 
by Arthur H. Howell. 
Auk, XVIII, Oct., 1001, p.843. 
