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Family MIMIDAE 



MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS POLYGLOTTOS (Linnaeus) : Eastern Mockingbird 



The mocker was obtained as follows : Weeksville, April 27 ; Engel- 

 hard, October 16; Morehead City, November 24; Marshallberg, 

 November 23 ; and Soiithport, May 18. It was seen on Smith Island, 

 May 13 ; near Reidsville, September 19 and 23 ; near Bethel, Novem- 

 , June 29. 



DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS (Linnaeus): Catbird 



Of this abundant species specimens were obtained as follows: 

 Murphy, June 8 and 9; Hayesville, June 26; Catawba, September 

 30; 4,600 feet elevation on Elk Knob, 7 miles north of Boone, July 

 19 ; Reidsville, September 23 and 25 ; Roseboro, May 4 ; Clinton, May 

 3 and 4; Bethel, November 1; Stumpy Point, October 17; Bogue 

 Island near Morehead City, November 24 ; and South Mills, April 19. 



TOXOSTOMA RUFUM RUFUM (Linnaeus) : Eastern Brown Thrasher 



Of state-wide distribution, this interesting bird was obtained at 

 the following localities: Murphy, June 9 and 10; Hayesville, June 

 26 and 27; 4,000 feet elevation on Patty Mountain, near West Jeffer- 

 son, July 14 ; Statesville, October 4 and 5 ; Reidsville, September 23 

 and 26; Clinton, May 6; and Southport, May 11. All these check 

 in size with the dimensions of the eastern race. 



Family TURDIDAE 



TURDUS MIGRATORIUS MIGRATORIUS Linnaeus: Eastern Robin 



The larger, darker eastern robin breeds in the higher mountains 

 of western North Carolina in a more or less intermediate form whose 

 distribution at present is not fully understood. In part of the area 

 at least it intergrades or mingles with the southern race. In the 

 present collection there is one male, taken on June 22 at 5,000 feet on 

 Rocky Ridge, 13 miles west of Franklin, that represents the eastern 

 bird, as it is dark in color. Though the wing measures only 126 

 mm. the tips of the primaries are broken and worn, so that the 

 proper length is perhaps 2 mm. more. A male taken at Statesville 

 on October 9 has the wing 129.3 mm., and one from Reidsville 

 measures 130.1 mm. Two other winter birds were shot at Greenville on 

 November 3 and 9, and a very large female was collected in the edge 

 of the Dismal Swamp near South Mills April 14 (wing 133.4 mm.). 



In January 1929 I recorded great flocks of robins roosting and 

 feeding in the wooded swamps along the Pamlico River near Bath, 

 and on January 16 I shot two, one of which was the typical form. 



