Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 8 (5) hundred yards distant, but the brush-heap to which the female took the Swallow on that occasion is within thirty yards of the nest. Neither bird was about it when I discovered it this morning so I kept on to the other locality beyond. Scarcely had I reached it when the male Shrike appeared, skimming low over the wide field on the western side of the road, bearing some rather large, dangling object in his bill. He took it into a small, stunted elm by the roadside and affixed it to a short branch, spending less than a minute in the operation. After he had flown away I went to the tree and found a Pickerel Frog sitting crosswise on the branch, his hind legs well doubled at the knees, his head resting on his folded front paws, his eyes wide open. So very lifelike was his attitude and expression that I could not believe him dead until I touched him. He was so perfectly balanced that I thought at first that the Shrike had merely placed him carefully on the branch, but on closer examination I found that he was firmly impaled on a short pointed twig which had penetrated half an inch or more into the fleshy part of the thigh. He was a fair-sized specimen but very thin and slender. I searched all the scattered trees and fence posts in the neighborhood in the hope of finding more victims but without suc- ces. The Bluebird had been removed from the willow since my last visit on the afternoon of the 5th.