The Migrant Shrike near Boston.— On September 4, 1916, I saw a 
Migrant Shrike ( Lanius ludovicianus migrans) in Brookline, Mass., near 
the West Roxbury (Boston) line. The bird was in an open pasture, and 
I followed it about for some time, saw it at close range, and positively 
identified it. It was very active, flying about from boulder to fence-post 
and swooping to the ground after insects, probably grasshoppers. Mr. 
Brewster, in ‘ Birds of the Cambridge Region ’ (1906) cites but four 
records for the species within ten miles of Boston, and I find no later records 
in ‘ I he Auk.’ — Francis H. Allen, West Rnxbury , Mass. 
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