Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 5 (2) to gain greater force and occasionally stopping to rest for a mo- ment. Finally it flew away. On examining the Swallow I found it very firmly fixed with the prong driven through the skin and sur- face muscles of the breast. From a lower branch of the same wil- low^and similarly impaled on a short dead prong driven through the skin of its neck hung a female Bluebird that had evidently been dead several days. It showed no signs of decomposition but the eyes had sunk almost out of sight and the flesh on the breast was hard and dry. It bore absolutely no signs of external injury and no portion of the flesh had been removed while the plumage was smooth and perfect. The Swallow was gone at 4 p.m. but the Bluebird remained. Just after the Shrike had left the Swallow impaled on the fence stake it was joined by its mate a larger, longer, lighter- colored bird, no doubt the male. In the afternoon I visited the place again in company with Dr.Gehring and again found both Shrikes. They were never actually together but seemed contented with keep- ing one another in sight as they sat perched on the fence posts or telegraph poles along the roadside sometimes within thirty yards of each other. We saw the male fly down to the dusty road and pick up what looked like a large beetle and the female pull a quantity of sheep's wool from the side of an empty barrel standing in a piece of cultivated ground. After arranging it carefully in her bill she took it up the road and into a maple near the one I 73