Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 5 (3) started her from this morning. I looked this tree over carefully afterwards but could not see anything in it that resembled a nest. Probably the bird really went on beyond it to another tree. Both Shrikes spent the greater part of the time when I was watching them within an area of about twenty acres. Most of this was perfectly open, intervale grass fields the only trees being those in the long row of planted, sidewalk sugar maples and a few scrubby willows, wild cherries, etc., scattered along the lines of the fences that divided the fields from one another. The Shrikes occasionally perched on some of these trees but their favorite points of observation were the fence and telegraph posts. In a general way they looked and behaved like Northern Shrikes but they appeared smaller and decidedly shorter and stouter while they were somewhat less active and restless. Their heads looked disproport- tionately larger and much thicker and heavier than those of their more northern relatives. The female was a dark, dull-colored bird, the male much lighter with very white underparts and a clear ashy- blue back. The broad black stripe through and about the eye was conspicuous with both of them. When perched they sat quite motionless save for a slow turn- ing of the head from side to side. I did not once see either of them lift and half spread the tail as the Northern Shrike so often does. Their method of flight, however, was identical with that of