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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Family TROGLODYTID.^. Wrens; Thrashers, etc. 

 Insectivorous birds; often sweet singers. 



Subfamily MIMlN.l'i. Thrashers. 

 Genus MIMUS Boies. 



Mocking Bird, about two-thirds natural size. 



312-703-(15). .>Iiinns polyglottos {Linn.). * Mocking Bird. 



Possibly a rare accidental straggler from the south. One reported by E. L. 

 Moseley. This species is included in the manuscript list of the Birds about 

 Detroit, by the late Rev. Chas. Fox. Hon. Bela Hubbard in his " Memoi-ials of 

 a Half Century," p. 310, says, "seen, though but rarely, in this state." 



Genus GALEOSCOPTES Cab. 



Cat-bird, natural size. 



313-704-(l(»). (ialeoscoptes caroliiieiisis (Linii.). * Cat-bird. 



Very common; throughout the state; usually in woodlands, though here at the 

 college where we protect the birds, they even breed freely on the campus; Mr. 



