2. Collurio. — June 16, 1877, I met a boy who had a young Shrike 
which was able to fly only a few yards. He would not part with it, 
although I made him a liberal offer for it, I afterwards learned that 
it got away from him, or he let it go, the same day. I was unable to tell 
whether it was C. ludoviciatius or the var. excubitoruides. At all events 
the bird must have been raised in the vicinity, 
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The Loggerhead Shrike in Central New York. — July 19, 1879, 
Dr. William L. Ralph of this city brought me a Shrike,- shot by him in 
Marcy, Oneida Co., N. Y., within a mile of this city. The bird was a 
young female, evidently bred near here. Believing the bird to be 
Lanius ludovicianus, I sent it to Mr. Robert Ridgway, who has kindly com- 
pared it with skins of that bird from the Gulf States, with which he says it 
exactly agrees. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., Utica, N. Y. 
BnliN.O.O. 4 , Oct., 1876 , p, X3 7. 
Breeding of the Loggerhead Shrike at Canton, New York. — 
On July 23, 1879, I shot a specimen of the Loggerhead Shrike ( Lanius 
ludovicianus), in a pasture at Canton, Saint Lawrence Co., New York. 
On August 9, I saw a second specimen of the same species within a mile 
of the place where the first one was obtained, but I had no means of 
securing it 
The occurrence of these two at that season seems to indicate that a few 
of that species remain in the vicinity to breed. — Leslie A. Lee, Bruns- 
wick, Me. 
[The specimen above mentioned, as taken July 23, having been kindly 
sent to me for examination by Mr. Lee, I am able to state that it is a bird 
of the year, and could not have been many weeks out of the nest, a con- 
siderable portion of the nestling plumage being still retained. The speci- 
men is also of interest from its decided approach to the excuhitorides type, 
it differing not more from typical examples of this form from the semi- 
desert regions of the West than from the average Florida bird. (Cf. 
Merriam^Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, p. 55.) It also carries the range of 
the Loggerhead considerably north of the locality in Northern New York 
(Danville, Lewis Co.) whence it was recently reported by Mr. Merriam, 
1 c. — J. A. Allen.] BuHN.O.O, 5 .April, 1880 , p, //<?■ 
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