Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 8 (7) very swiftly, but as a rule his motion after he had gone a few rods became slower and slower until he seemed to move no faster than a tuft of thistle down drifting before a light wind, and with equal lightness and grace. I can think of no other bird which ever flies in just this way. After the few wing beats he held his wings wide- spread and quite motionless, his bill pointing downwards, his tail closed. He rarely approached his mate nearer than fifty yards, but once he went directly towards her and alighted within ten feet of her when she greeted him with a low, harsh, vibrating cry and a long-continued fluttering of her wings like that of a young bird. On another occasion I saw him fly directly off from a telegraph pole for a distance of about one hundred yards and then mount straight upwards to a height of forty or fifty feet apparently in pursuit of some flying insect which I thought he caught and in- stantly swallowed. During the upward flight he beat his wings vigorously but they were held nearly or quite immovable during the long, smooth glide by means of which he reached a fence post well out in the field. Soon after this he flew down to the ground and picked up what looked like a large beetle. Holding this in the tip of his bill he came nearly straight towards me and, to my great surprise, alighted by the side of a young Shrike which all the while must have been sitting within ten yards of me on a fence rail by the roadside. The young bird received the insect in its wide opened bill and instantly swallowed it at the same time