. The Auk. Birds. been lost through some accident. The wound had healed, leaving the tongue exposed. Most of the feathers on the upper throat and malar re- gion have been worn away, and the plumage in general was dirty, rum- pled and matted, as the bird was of course unable to preen. The body was emaciated, but there was a little subcutaneous fat, and a partial molt was in progress. The stomach contained a little white sand, and a soft, whit- ish substance, probably cracker. That this bird in its crippled condition after the loss of the mandible succeeded in living the time necessary for the g
. The Auk. Birds. been lost through some accident. The wound had healed, leaving the tongue exposed. Most of the feathers on the upper throat and malar re- gion have been worn away, and the plumage in general was dirty, rum- pled and matted, as the bird was of course unable to preen. The body was emaciated, but there was a little subcutaneous fat, and a partial molt was in progress. The stomach contained a little white sand, and a soft, whit- ish substance, probably cracker. That this bird in its crippled condition after the loss of the mandible succeeded in living the time necessary for the great overgrowth of the maxilla seems to me very remarkable. Mr. W. H. Hoyt of Stamford has shown me a mounted Parrot {Amazona leucocephala) in which the mandible had grown over the maxilla and extends for more than one third of an inch upwards, but this bird lived in captivity. — Louis B. Bishop, M. D., New Haven, Conn. The Loggerhead Shrike in New Brunswick.— On different occasions broods of young shrikes have been seen near here, and the writer always supposed they were the Northern Shrike [Lanius borealii), as that was the only species of shrike in Chamberlain's list of New Brunswick Birds. But two years ago on writing to Mr. F. M. Chapman of their occurrence, he suggested that they were Luniiis ludoviciauuf. Since that date no young have been observed, but during the past summer, at two different times, shrikes were seen that, I was most certain, were the Loggerhead,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original American Ornithologists' Union. Washington, D. C. : American Ornithologists' Union, etc.
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