Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 8 (6) Not long after the appearance of the male Shrike this morning I saw the female sitting on a fence rail well out in the open fields. For nearly an hour she remained within twenty yards of the same spot although she frequently took short flights usually to the ground and back again to the same or a neighboring perch on the fence rails or posts. Although I watched her closely I did not once see her catch anything. Her manner of flying down to the ground and back reminded me strongly of that of a Bluebird. Sometimes she would remain on the ground for a minute or more hop- ping or fluttering from clod to clod on some recently ploughed land, evidently looking for insects but ordinarily she flew back to her perch almost immediately after alighting on the ground. While perched she remained for the most part as immovable as a Hawk and in a similarly erect, tense attitude. Her mate was also in sight most of the time. His favorite perches were on the telegraph poles and their connecting wires along the roadside. While sitting on these his attitudes were as light and graceful as those of the Northern Shrike and he balanced himself in the same way, shifting his position frequently and often raising and lowering his long tail as well as occasionally half spreading it. It was a beautiful sight to see him start from his elevated perch and after a few rapid vibrations of his short, white-spotted wings, glide on a long, gentle incline half across a broad field before coming to the ground. Sometimes he would move