Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Connecticut. — .The following are 
the records of the Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Conn. : late in 
August, 1880, one seen ; late in August, 1885, two seen together; August 
29, 1888, two seen together, one of which I shot. Mr. j. A. Allen pro- 
nounced this a Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides and a bird of the 
year. All these birds were seen at the sea beach. The gizzard of the one 
killed was filled with grasshoppers. — C. K. Averjll, Jr., Bridgeport , 
Com ‘- Auk.Ti. j»«. , laao.p. 7 •i 
Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Conn. — A Correction. — By some inad- 
vertence in printing Mr. Averill’s note in the January number of ‘The 
Auk’ (Vol. VI, p. 74) an incongruous combination of names was brought 
about, which it seems desirable to correct. The specimen of Shrike 
recorded was the true Loggerhead ( Lanins ludovicianus'), not L. ludovici- 
anns excubitoirdes , as accidentally printed. — Eds. 
Atik, Yl. April, 1889. p. m- 
The Loggerhead Shrike in Connecticut in Winter. — I am indebted to 
Mr. Wilbur F. Smith, of South Norwalk, Conn., for the opportunity of 
lecording the capture of a very dark-colored specimen of the Loggerhead 
Shrike ( Lanius ludovicianus ) taken at South Norwalk, Conn., on Febru- 
ar J T 7 > I 9 °Si and brought by him to me for identification. The bird was 
found wounded by the roadside, and brought alive to Mr. Smith, but died 
soon after being taken into the warm air of a house from a temperature of 
nearly zero out of doors. This may have hastened the bird’s death, 
although it had lost one eye and the left half of the tail, and was found 
on dissection to have received severe internal injuries. 
As there are several winter records for the Northern Loggerhead Shrike 
(L. 1 . migrant) in southern and middle New England, the chief interest 
in the present connection is the exceptionally dark coloration of the spec- 
imen, which is very much darker even than the darkest Florida specimen 
I have ever seen. The upper tail-coverts were nearly as dark as the back; 
the lower parts were as dark gray as is the back in an average specimen 
of ludovicianus from Florida or the Gulf States, while the upper parts 
were many shades darker; even the throat, lower tail-coverts, and the 
tips of the rectrices were strongly grayish white instead of clear white, 
as in ordinary specimens. The bird is thus strikingly darker than 
migrans , being, as said above, darker than even very dark specimens of 
ludovicianus , and for this reason is referred to the latter form.— J. A. 
Allen, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 
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