Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 5 copy complete The most interesting experience of the morning remains to be chronicled. I was returning over the intervale and within two hundred yards of the railroad when a Shrike (L.l.migrans) started from a maple and flew off up the road, carrying a bird in its bill. It alighted first on a fence post, next on a brush heap near the railroad. I got within twenty yards of it each time. As I was approaching it it worked busily and nervously, tearing at its prey and eating portions of it. Finally it circled back past me and flew out into a large field where it alighted on a fence post. Before I could get near it again it flew a fourth time leaving its victim which I found was a Bank Swallow. It had eaten the head completely off and had impaled the loose skin of the lower neck on a sharp upright splinter that projected above the post. After examining the Swallow I walked off a few rods when the Shrike immediately returned to it and carried it off across the road to a small half dead willow that grew by a wall within fifty yards of a house. I followed and had the great pleasure of watching the Shrike impale the Swallow on a short, sharp stub of a dead twig. It performed this operation precisely in the manner of the Northern Shrike that I saw hang up a Field Mouse at Ball's Hill a dozen or so years ago, i.e. by drawing the bird against the stub. Stand- ing a little below it it pulled violently and jerkily for several minutes often fluttering its wings either to keep its balance or 72