Lanius ludovicianus (migrans). — On August 29, 1898, Master 
LeRoy King took a Shrike on Indian Ave., Newport, and brought the 
specimen to Edward Sturtevant, Esq., through whose kindness it finally 
reached me for identification. I referred the bird directly to Mr. William 
Palmer’s new subspecies migrans of Lanins ludovicianus , described in 
‘ The Auk’ (Vol. XV, No. 3, 244), and forwarded the specimen to him for 
his examination. The bird is an immature female and measured by Mi. 
Palmer’s measurement (taken from skin), wing, 3.85 5 tail, 3.60; culmen, 
.^3; tarsus, 1. 12. Mr. Palmer referred the bird to his subspecies and 
drew attention to some points I had already noted, viz., first plumage 
feathers on head, back, and wing-coverts and the growing out of a new 
•tail-feather, either to replace moult or loss. For the present we must 
call the bird, I suppose, Lanius ludovicianus excubitondes. 
