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Brief Notes. 
Song of the White-bumped Shrike. — Last 
'Spring, during tlie mating season, a male White- 
nun ped Shrike was accustomed to perch on a 
giant Soapweed near my door and sing in a 
very spirited manner. The song was entirely 
new to me, and quite different from the harsh cry, 
which I had often heard them utter while search- 
ing for food, or perched upon some lone Soap- 
weed stalk on the prairie. As nearly as I can de- 
scribe the song from notes taken while listening to 
the bird, it consisted of the following sounds, each 
note being repeated a number of times then fol- 
lowed by the next in the series, and so on: Pe-dee,pe- 
(lee, pe-dee, cre-e-e-cep, cre-e-e-eep, ore-e-e-eep; t'chee- 
t'chee, fahee-Cchee; sometimes ending with a long 
trill t-’r-r-r-'rco — t-’r-r-'r-ree, and at others with 
a hoarse chatter, sounding very like ckut-it-up, 
chut-it-up , when he would dart away to the neigh- 
boring hillside, soon returning to renew lus song. 
This continued for several days, when I presume 
he succeeded in securing a mate for he disap- 
peared and I heard his song no more. — Charles II. 
Marsh , Silver City , New Mexico, June 30, 1885. 
