Lanius ludoviclanus mlgrans . 
Bethel, Maine. 
1903 
June S 
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quuring its wings. The place where it sat was not over twenty- 
yards from the elm where I had previously seen the frog impaled. 
Why had not the frog been given directly to the young Shrike? why 
had not the parents fed it at all previous to this during the 
hour I had been watching them (I should certainly have seen them 
feed it had they done so)? and where -were the remainder of the 
brood? were questions that I asked myself in vain. I searched 
the whole neighborhood carefully but without discovering any more 
of the young. The one I had seen fed was conspicuous enough (after 
my attention had been called to him) and one of the prettiest and 
oddest little birds I have ever seen. He could fly only a few 
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yards at a time but he hopped along the fence rail ahead of me al¬ 
most as fast as I could walk, using his wings only when I was on 
the point of touching him with my hand. His wings and tail were 
nearly black but £ke secondaries and greater wing coverts were 
broadly tipped with rusty brown. His under parts were exquisitely 
vermiculated with wavy grayish lines on a lighter gray ground. 
His eyes were very large and expressive, his bill short and blunt. 
Most comical of all was his little stub tail scarce two inches 
long. He carried it nearly erect and kept bobbing it up and down 
and flirting it from side to side in the most amusing way. All his' 
motions were exceedingly quick and animated when I was pursuing 
him but after I had left him he eat erect and still with his plumage 
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