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stance, to note any annual shifting of numbers in South Carolina), 

 certain concentrations in parts of the southern range indicate that 

 there may be a short migration in fall and an early return in spring. 



In Florida, where the bird is abundant the year round, there are 

 times when many more are to be seen in certain places in winter than 

 occur in summer. This is certainly the case in the Keys, where the 

 writer has, in winter, noted the mocker in greater abundance than any- 

 where else in the entire South. Through six years of fall and winter 

 trips in the Keys he has, time and again, been impressed with the pres- 

 ence of the bird on Key Largo. Counting completely at random, he 

 has seen the bird average seven individuals to a mile along the Overseas 

 Highway for as much as 15 miles. All these, of course, were on con- 

 spicuous perches ; no search was made, for the birds were seen from a 

 moving car. 



Increasing records from far northern points are evident. Even in 

 Maine the mocker is now beginning to show itself, and winter records 

 from various parts of New England are not the uncommon events they 

 once were. Indeed, in southern New England the mocker is now 

 resident ( E. H. Forbush, 1929 ) . One of the most remarkable northern 

 occurrences is that of an individual seen on Mount Desert Island, 

 Maine (Acadia National Park), by Maurice Sullivan (1940) in the 

 winter of 1940. As an added touch of complete incongruity, an ivory 

 gull {PagopMla alba) was seen at the same time, February 10. Thus, 

 the far north and the deep south were brought together in as strange 

 an avian mixture as perhaps has ever been noted in this country. 



Definite evidence of some movement on the part of individual birds 

 has been secured by banding. F. C. Lincoln (1939) lists an instance 

 of a mocker banded at Haddonfield, N. J., on November 25, 1932, being 

 found dead at Shadyside, Md., on May 25, 1935. This was a northerly 

 banded winter bird found in spring some distance to the southward. 

 Another specimen, banded at Nashville, Tenn., on May 26, 1934, was 

 killed at Fulton, Miss., on January 29, 1936. This represents a di- 

 rectly westward movement. 



Frank L. Farley, of Camrose, Alberta, contributes the following 

 note : "The nesting of a pair of mockingbirds in central Alberta during 

 the summer of 1928 was one of the most remarkable ornithological 

 discoveries since the country was first opened to settlement. That sea- 

 son a pair of these southern birds nested in the garden of Mr. Mc- 

 Naughton, on the western edge of the town of Didsbury. This is 

 about 200 miles north of the Montana border and roughly between 50 

 and 60 miles east of the Rockies. The unusual 'find' was published 

 in the local paper. The Pioneer^ issue of June 21, 1928. Later that 

 summer when returning from a trip I called at Mr. McNaughton's 

 home to get further particulars, but unfortunately the family was 

 absent. However, I talked with neighbors who were familiar with the 



