FAM. V. MOCKING BIRDS, WRENS, ETC. 



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bird of America, and as a mocker the most wonderful in the 

 world. He is to be found in woods, gardens, parks, and even 

 in the streets of 

 towns, always fear- 

 less and alert, and 

 with the power to 

 mimic almost any 

 sound in nature. 

 Mr. L. M. Lumis re- 

 ports having heard 

 one imitate thirty- 

 two different species 

 of birds in less than 

 a quarter of an hour. 



Mocking Bird 

 United States to Mexico ; rare 



Length, 10^ ; wing, 

 4^ (4-5) ; tail, 5 ; tarsus, \\ ; culmen, 

 north of Maryland, though found in southern Ohio and Massachusetts ; 

 winters from Florida southward. 



2. Catbird (704. Ghleoscoptes carolininsis). — A large, very 

 common, slate-colored bird, with a chestnut-colored patch 

 under the tail and almost black crown and tail. This gro- 

 tesquely active bird 

 can be found every- 

 where around our 

 orchards and shrub- 

 bery. It is a very 

 charming, but not 

 loud, singer, and a 

 good m i m i c ; most 

 people know it only 

 by its cries when dis- 

 turbed. 



Length, 8| ; wing, Sf 



Catbird (3|-3|) ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, 



li ; culmen, |. North 



America, though common only east of the Rocky Mountains ; breeding 



from the Gulf States northward, and wintering in the Southern States. 



apgar's birds. — 5 



