8 TURDID^, THRUSHES. 



the Black Hills, ouly five or six specimens being observed in tlie course 

 of bis collecting. "They remain concealed during the middle of tbe 

 day in some low thicket, and on the approach of evening the males 

 mount some high point and sing till after dusk." 



Of the nidification of the Mountain Mockingbird I remain ignorant. 

 A set of four eggs in the Smithsonian collection, from Wyoming, offers 

 the following characters: Size, 1.03 by 0.70, 1.00 by 0.70, 0.90 by 0.08, 

 0.94 by 0.69. Color rather light greenish-blue, boldly, sharply, and 

 rather heavily spotted all over with burnt umber. A single egg of 

 another set from the same locality is more minutely speckled and dotted 

 in diffuse pattern, approaching some styles of Mockingbird's eggs. Mr. 

 Merriam took a nest containing four fresh eggs, June 10, 1872, at Salt 

 Lake, Utah. 



MIMUS POLYGLOTTUS, (L.) Boie. 



Mockingbird. 



lurdus iwlyoMius, L., S. N. i, 1766, 293.— Wils., Aui. Ora. ii, 1810, 14, pi. gO, f. 1.— Bp., 

 Syn. 1828, 74— AuD., Orn. Biog. i, 1831, 108; v, 1839, 438; pi. 21.— Nutt., Mau. 

 i, 1832, 320. 



Mimus poh/iilottus, Boie, Isis, 1826, 972.— Bp., Comp. List, 1838. 17 ; Consp. i, 1850, 276.— 

 WooDH., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 72.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1856, 212 ;' 1859, 340 ; Cat. 1862, 8.— 

 Bd., B. N. a. 1858, 344 ; Rev. 1864, 48.— Kenn., P. R. R. Rep. x, 1859, pt. iv, 

 25.— Hkerm., ihid. pt. vi, 44.— Wheat., Ohio Agr. Rep. I860, No. 118 (Ohio, 

 formerly common). — CouES & Prent., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 410 (rare). — Ai,lex, Pr. 

 Ess. lust, iv, 1864, 67 (Massachusetts, northern limit). — Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 viii, 1866, 282 (Long Island, occasional).— Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 65 

 (Arizona). — Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. sii, 1868, 107 (South Carolina, resident). — 

 Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1868, 523 (Indiana). — Sumich., ipid. i, 1869, 543 

 (Vera Cruz, Gulf shore up to plateau ; breeding at Orizal)a). — Turn., B. E. Pa. 

 1869, 15 (rare, stated to have wintered).— Mayn., Guide, 1870, 92 (Massachusetts) ; 

 B. Fla. 1872, 16.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 21.— Lawr., Pr. Bost. Soc. June, 1871 

 (Tres Marias).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 259 (Florida, in winter) ; iii, 

 1872, 134 (Middle Kansas, common, breeding).— Coues, Key, 1872, 74, lig. 16. 



Orplieus 2>ohi(iIotUts, Sws., Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, 167.— Aud., Syu. 1839, 87.- Aud., B. Am. 

 ii, 1841, 187, pi. 137. 



Orpheus Itucopttrus, ViG., Zool. Beechey's Voy. 1839, p. — . 



Orpheus puhjijoihus, Putn., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1856, 224 (error). 



Mimus caiKlatus, Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 345 {" canadaius," error).— Coop., Pr. Cal. Acad. 

 1870, 75. 



JaZ>.— United States, from Atlantic to Pacific ; north regularly to the Middle States, 

 rarely to Massachusetts, beyond which no record. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas; 

 New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California ; Tres Marias Islands. Resident from 

 the Carolinas southward, and in Mexico. Several insular races in various West Indian 

 Islands. Breeds throughout its range. 



The Mockingbird was not noticed by either expedition, but has lately 

 been ascertained to breed in Kansas, where Mr. Allen found it common, 

 in June, along Big Creek. It probably does not proceed further north- 

 w'ard in the Missouri region. 



The Mockingbird's eggs measure nearly or quite an inch long by three- 

 fourths wide, and are gray, irregularly speckled aud blotched with brown 

 and lavender, chiefly about the larger end, but often over the whole sur- 

 face. Two or three broods are reared in the South. 



MIMUS CAROLINENSIS, (Linn.) Gray. 



Cntbird. 



Muscicapa carolinensis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 328. 

 Turdus airolhieusis, Licili"., Verzeichu. 1823, 38. 

 Orphi'us carolineusis. Aud., B. Am. ii, 1841. 195, pi. 140. 



.Mimus caroliuensis. Gray.- Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 346.— Hayd., Rep, 1862, 163.— Coop., Am. 

 Nat. iii, 1869, 73 (common across Rocky Mountains to Cceur d'Aleue Mission) ; 295 



