ON THE HIATUS EXISTING BETWEEN THE BRFFD 
ING ranges of the loggerhead and 
WHITE-RUMPED SHRIKES. 
by G. H. RAGSDALE. 
.h“= t the r '7 r “" 1 """ had »™POi.dence on 
subject I was drawn into the belief that there must he •> 
Harri S s 0 Co eW r e T by ^ Nehrlin F’ S record of the breeding in 
", Un y ’ exas > of the White-rumped Shrike, when I had 
nev^known the birds to remain through the summer “ Cook 
The following observers report “no Shrikes breeding ” at 
1 A TST ?n nS ; \ TeXaS: W - W - ^ Houston 
Peters P C J ngS 5 E. Rachford, Beaumont; H. F 
ete'S, Bonham. Although I have not detected any Shrike breed 
"I " 7 ° l -"<■ '»™ “Pious notes on their depaRu". 
te a. May, and return as early as July, , have a se, of eggs ken 
n. Cook County by Mr. E. C. Davis, who saw a Shrike to“tto 
roe n; winch the nest was. These egg, agree well wkh , ,,! I 
Gainesvi’i" , ° ° lacI °’ T ™“- ">*5 e hundred miles southwest of 
and Oologiit- Vo! e XH 6e p ,£)' f'"™"’ !" *'>' ‘ Ornithologist 
Loggerhead Shrike ' It P ‘ ^ 1 k " lg the e ^ s of the 
fke g f ,n he VIC,nlty of San Antonio, Texas but 
specimen was evidently excubitorides. Mr. J. A. Sincdey 
rn np'ed’q irikeTc"';" “7 “<* «■ W '<* *■» Wllite- 
recotd of breeding „f Loggerhead’ is <L 
of New Orleans. On Mav ra ,Sx><3 1 , y i ’ 
J ‘v r 3 > i ooo, he secured two old and 
three young, near Franklinton, Lat ao° K 2 > from a J ° 
their nest. At Franklinton, May k i8 £ ’ 1 T C nCar 
j • t , . ’ VA<1 J 1 5 5 1 007, he secured two adult 
’ "’ d ™ “» »“* « a pine tree, from which a e, t 
was seen to take the young. On May 29, Mr. Beyer saw a pair 
at Greensburg, Louisiana, Lat. 30° 49'. On June 5 he shot a 
pail near Clinton, Louisiana, Lat. 30° 52', and saw their nest in a 
pine tree. 
It will be remembered that no Shrike was ob.served by Mr. 
Beckham at Bayou Sara, Louisiana, but ludovicianus was quoted 
on the authority of Mr. Wederstraudt (Bull. N. O. C., Vol. VII, 
No. 3, p. 162). Mr. O. P. Hay saw a Shrike at Jackson, Missis- 
sippi, “ in summer” (Bull. N. O. C., Vol. VII, p. 91). I have 
shown that the birds return as early as July in Cook County, Texas, 
and this record only shows, as does Mr. Beckham’s, that no Shrike 
is common in summer in those localities. In 1SS6, Mr. J. T. 
Moore of Oxford, Mississippi, reported that he had taken the 
eggs of both Loggerhead and White-rumped Shrike at Oxford, 
but that both were very rare. Dr. Rawlings Young of Corinth, 
Mississippi, reports no Shrikes in that locality in summer. Mr. 
J. 1 . lark ol Rising Sun, in northwestern Georgia, wrote me 
that no Shrikes bred there ; but Mr. H. B. Bailey has reported 
the breeding of Lanius ludovicianus in Wayne and McIntosh 
Counties, Georgia, which are on or near the coast. 
At Greensboro’, Alabama, Dr. Wm. C. Avery, on April 25, 
18S7, took six eggs of the Loggerhead Shrike from the end of a 
limb of an old field pine, eight feet from the ground, and saw 
another nest higher up in a pine tree in the spring of 188S. 
Mr. L. M. Loomis reports the Loggerhead as a resident at 
Chester, South Carolina. 
1 he birds seen by Mr. Fox in Tennessee, and reported in ‘ The 
Auk,’ Vol. Ill, p.317, were probably migrating White-rumps- 
I have failed to learn of any Shrike breeding in Tennessee, 
Kentucky, or Arkansas, Mr. Pindar of Hickman, Kentucky 
being the only observer to report from that State, and none from 
Tennessee, and only one from Arkansas. Mr. Goss reports from - 
personal observations the White-rumped Shrikes breeding through- 
out Kansas. 
Mr. O. Widmann reports the Loggerhead as breeding at St. 
Louis, Missouri, but bleaching’ out in spring and summer, and 
to the noithwest of St. Louis only the Wh i ton imps are reported 
in summer. 
Fiom the foregoing I conclude that the A. O. U. Committee 
cot rectly relegated the Loggerhead to the Gulf States, and that it 
