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mained throughout mild winters in southern New England." * 

 Dec. 1, 1883, Dec. 31, 1885, Dec. 12, 1889, Guilford (L. B. B.). 



Family MIMIDiE. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc. 



Mimus polyglottos polyglottos (Linnaeus). Mockingbird. 



Very rare visitant. 



Connecticut records. Linsley recorded it from Stratford and 

 New Haven 2 ; Milford (G. B. Grinnell) 2 ; Suffield (Lester) 2 ; 

 Saybrook (J. N. C.) 2 ; May 30, 1877, near New Haven 

 (Osborne) 2 ; Dec. 18, 1882, New Haven (formerly in coll. of 

 L. C. S., seen in flesh by L. B. B.) ; June 20, 1884, Jewett City, 

 nest with five eggs, June 28, second clutch of three eggs, female 

 shot and identified (Prior) 3 ; July 21, 1894, West Haven, one 

 reported seen, in the New Haven Journal and Courier; Nov. 2, 

 1904, New Haven, one flew into greenhouse (J. Y. Stetson, seen 

 by L. B. B.) ; June 9, 1907, Middletown, one seen (Cady) ; Nov. 

 30, 1910 — Feb. 9, 191 1, West Hartford, one seen and identified 

 by Mrs. L. A. Cressy; another seen the same winter (St. John) 4 ; 

 Feb. 8 — April 4, 1911, Portland, one seen by C. H. N. 



The late Frank L. Burr, of the Hartford Times, once told 

 me that about the time of the Civil War a pair of Mockingbirds 

 nested in the meadow north of Avon St., Hartford. There was 

 no question as to the identity of the birds, but the eggs were 

 destroyed. A year or two later a pair had a nest quite near a 

 house on Wethersfield Ave. in the same city, and in the vicinity 

 of Armsmear, the residence of the late Mrs. Samuel Colt. This 

 nest also had eggs which were destroyed. Gurdon Trumbull, 

 the artist and ornithologist of Hartford, now dead, informed 

 me that he remembered distinctly two or three pairs of these 

 birds nesting, about i860, in what was then known as Gillette's 

 Grove, Hartford. He saw the birds and heard them sing. The 

 eggs were taken by Mr. Trumbull and a boy friend, now a 

 well-known actor and playwright. (J. H. S.) 



Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus). Catbird. 

 An abundant summer resident from May until September; 

 winters accidentally. 



1 Samuels, Birds of New England, p. 200. 

 a Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 7. 

 3 0. and O., ix, 8, pp. 94-95. 

 ^Bird-Lore, xiii, 2, p. 97. 



