Loggerhead Shrike 
Nest, eggs and parent bird, taken by True Van Ostrand, 
in Mi 11 bury , Mass., in 1891 or 1892. Cannot be traced. See 
letter on file written by Mr.H.L.Rand of Worcester, Mass., to 
Mr. John L. Parley of Malden, Mass., and given by the latter to 
Mr. Brewster. Acc. to letter, Mr. Van Ostrand is somewhere in 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
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Massachusetts. 
Since the finding of three nests of the small Shrike (be it migrant, 
excubitorid.es , or ludovicianus ), by Mr. S. G. Tenney in Williamstown 
several years ago, there does not seem to be any record of the bird’s 
occurrence in Berkshire County. It is therefore worth recording" that on 
August 18, igoo, 1 saw a brightly-plumaged small shrike on one of the 
high pasture hills between Lanesboro and Berkshire village. The bird 
flew from a low bush near me to the top of an elm tree, where I watched 
it for several minutes. This is the only one I have seen in the region, 
though I have found in the thorn-bushes of those hills several old nests 
which seemed to be shrike nests. 
Auk, XIX, July, 1902, p. 
Migrant Shrike {Lanius ludovicianus migrans) at Newburyport, 
Mass. — On August 28, 1915, a short distance outside the city limits I 
noted a Migrant Shrike, my first acquaintance with the rather uncommon 
species. And again on August 21, 1916, in the same region a single bird 
of this species was noted. — S. W. Bailey, Pittsfield, Mass. 
