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mockers gave chase to the marauder as it flew out over the adjacent 

 marshes. While at the supper table that same evening, at 7 :45 p. m., 

 Chamberlain witnessed the return of the hawk and the departure of the 

 last of the young by "the same well worn route." He then closed the 

 account with the statement that "I was interested to note that by 8 : 15 

 p. m. the adult male (?) mocker had recovered enough to burst into 

 song on a nearby perch. Perhaps he had forgotten the tragedy 

 already." 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — The United States and southern Canada, to southern Mex- 

 ico and the West Indies: generally nonmigratory. 



The mockingbird occurs with some regularity, generally breeding, 

 north to northern California (Corning and Chico) ; southeastern 

 Oregon (an isolated colony in the Blitzen Valley, Harney County) ; 

 southern Nevada (Oasis Valley and Pahranagat Valley) ; southern 

 Utah (St. George and Zion National Park ; occasional or local north to 

 Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin) ; southern and eastern Colorado 

 (Grand Junction, Salida, Denver, and Loveland) ; southeastern Wyo- 

 ming (Laramie and Douglas) ; Nebraska (Sioux County, rare, Gree- 

 ley, and Omaha) ; Iowa (Sioux City and Grinnell) ; northern Illinois 

 (Chicago, rare) ; northern Indiana (Elkhart and Fort Wayne) ; 

 northern Ohio (Toledo, Sandusky, and Stanhope) ; southwestern and 

 southeastern Pennsylvania (Hickory, Finleyville, Harrisburg, and 

 Philadelphia) ; central New Jersey (Barnegat) ; and sporadically to 

 central New York, Massachusetts, and southern Maine. East to the 

 Atlantic coast of the United States, the Bahamas (Abaco and Inagua 

 Islands) ; the Greater Antilles to the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas and 

 St. Croix). South to the Virgin Islands (St. Croix) ; Hispaniola 

 (Ciudad Trujillo) ; Jamaica (Port Koyal) ; Grand Cayman; Cuba 

 (Isle of Pines) ; the Gulf coast of the United States and Mexico to 

 Veracruz (Orizaba) ; and southern Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia). West 

 to Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia and Oaxaca) ; Guerrero (Acapulco) ; the 

 Pacific coast of Mexico and throughout Baja California (Cape San 

 Lucas, Santa Margarita, and Ensenada; accidental on Guadalupe 

 Island) ; and the coast of California (including the Santa Barbara 

 Islands) to the San Francisco Bay region and the Sacramento Valley 

 (Willows and Corning). 



The above range is for the species as a whole, of which two sub- 

 species or geographic races are recognized in the United States. The 

 eastern mockingbird {M. p. polyglottos) occurs in the northern 

 Bahama Islands and the eastern United States, west to the edge of 

 the Plains in eastern Nebraska and Kansas ; the western mockingbird 

 {M. p. leucopterus) is found from western Nebraska and Kansas west- 

 ward and south to Baja California and Oaxaca. 



