PASSEEES TUEDIDAE-MIMUS POLYGLOTTUS. 



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MIMUS POLYGLOTTUS (L.). 

 Mocking-bird. 



Turdus polyglottus, LINN., Syst, Nat., 10th eel., 1758, 169 ; 12th ed., 1766, 293. 



Mimus polyglottus. WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufli & Col. Eiv., 1854, 72. 



Merimts [sic] polyglottus, ED., Ives' Col. Esped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 5. Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 344. HEEEM., P. E. E, Eep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 44. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, birds, 12. KENNEELY, P. E. E. Ef-p., Whipp. Eoute, 

 1859, 25. BD., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 303 (Cape St. Lucas). 

 COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 65. COOPEE, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 

 21. SNOW, Birds Kau., 1872, 8. COXJES, KeyN. A. Birds, 1872, 74, f. 16. 

 ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 174 (Eastern aud Middle Kansas). 

 HENSHAW, Eep. Oru. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 97. COUES, U. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1874, 8. BD., BEEW.. & EIDG., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 49. 



The Mocking-bird was not observed in the vicinity of Santa Fc^ ; its 

 absence here being doubtless due rather to the nature of the locality being- 

 unfavorable to its habits than to any other cause. A few miles to the south, 

 the species began to appear on the heavily brushed streams, and the varied 

 and melodious notes of its many tongued songs frequently enlivened our 

 clay's weary march. As we passed southward, their numbers continually 

 increased, until, in the neighborhood of Camp Bowie, in early August, it was 



