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tipped with wliite than in adults; white of lateral rectrices clouded or 

 suffused terminally with grayish or dusky. 



Eastern United States; northward, regularly (but locally) , to Mary- 

 land, southern Ohio, southern half of Indiana and Illinois, Missouri, 

 etc., irregularly to Massachusetts, southeastern New York (Long Island, 

 etc.). New Jersey, Pennsylvania, northern Indiana and Illinois, and 

 Iowa, sporadically to Maine (Calais; Portland), Ontario (Hamilton), 

 southern Wisconsin (Racine, breeding), and southern Minnesota; 

 breeding and resident throughout its range, except where occurring 

 accitlentally; southward to southern Florida and along the Gulf coast 

 to eastern Texas, and to Bahama Islands" (Abaco, Andros, New 

 Providence, and Biminis islands). Bermudas (introduced in 1893). 

 Island of Little Ca^mian, south of Cuba? 



[Turdus] j)olyglottos Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 1G9 (l)ased chiefly on 

 The Mock Bird Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, 27, pi. 27); ed. 12, i, 1766, 293, 

 part. 



Turdus polyglottos Bonaparte, Joiirn. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 32 (crit.); 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 74. 



[Turdus] polyglottus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 812. — Latham, Index Orn.,i, 

 1790, 339. 



Turdus polyglottus Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 14, pi. 10, fig. 1. — Lesson, Traite 

 d'Orn., 1831, 410.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 108, pi. 21.— Nutt.\ll, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 320.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 

 300 (Massachusetts, rare). 



Mimus polyglottus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 17. — Hoy, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 309 (Wisconsin); Ann. Rej). Smithson. Inst, for 

 1864 (1865), 437 (Missouri).— Reed, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 398 

 (Ohio). — Kennicott, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 582 (Illinois). — Maxi- 

 milian, Joum. fiir Orn., 1858, 179. — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 



a Mr. Cory refers the mockingbirds of Andros, Biminis, and Abaco islands, Bahamas, 

 to the continental form, and so far as I have been able to examine specimens he seems 

 to be essentially right in doing so. I liave only seen one each from Andros and 

 Abaco, and none from the Biminis. The Andros and Abaco specimens examined 

 certainly agree with M. p. polyglottos in having the inner web of the third rectrix 

 dusky for much the greater part; but they seem to be, like other West Indian speci- 

 mens (if. p. elegans and M. p. orpheus) whiter beneath as well as smaller, and thus 

 representing intergrades between the continental and Antillean forms. Comparative 

 measurements are as follows: 



