BIRDS OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION. 36 1 



also somewhat shriller. Titlarks seldom appear in the immediate neighborhood of 

 Cambridge in spring, but I have known them to occur numerously at that season 

 in the salt marshes near Revere Beach. 



226. Mimus polyglottos (Linn.). 

 Mockingbird. 



Rare transient visitor in spring and autumn, and very rare summer resident. 



My notes supply the following instances of the occurrence of the Mocking- 

 bird in the Cambridge Region : — 



Cambridge. 



On September 20, 188 1, Mr. Spelman and I found a male perched in the top of 

 a small elm on the banks of Little River not far from Beech Island. Four days 

 later (on September 24) Mr. Spelman again saw the bird in the same tree. On both 

 occasions it was singing almost continuously but somewhat feebly and brokenly. 



On December 10, 1881, a female was shot by Mr. Charles R. Lamb not far 

 from the Fresh Pond Hotel in what is now called Kingsley Park. It had been feed- 

 ing on buckthorn berries, which abounded in a neighboring hedge, and was in good 

 physical condition and unworn plumage. 



On October 26, 1899, a bird was seen by Mr. O. A. Lothrop in the shrubbery at 

 the northeastern entrance to Fresh Pond Park. 



Belmont. 



On April 5, 1891, I found a Mockingbird in an arbor vitae hedge in what are 

 now the grounds of the Oakley Country Club. On the 13th of the month I met with 

 what, no doubt, was the same bird on the opposite side of the road in Payson Park. 

 He was in full, continuous song on both occasions. I did not see him again although 

 I looked for him several times later that season. 



On October 26 and November 17, 1898, a Mockingbird was noted by Mr. Ralph 

 Hoffmann ' near Payson Park. Mr. Walter Faxon writes me that he saw this bird on 

 both of the dates just mentioned and also on October 27 ; he adds that it was met 

 with on several other occasions by different observers. 



On March 25, 1899, a bird, which may have been the same as that just men- 

 tioned, was observed by Mr. George C. Deane on School Street only a short distance 

 from the northeastern confines of Payson Park. 



On October 15, 1899, a Mockingbird was seen by Mr. M. Abbott Frazar about 

 half a mile to the northward of Payson Park not far from the town center of Belmont. 



On May 29, 1904, Mr. Ralph Hoffmann saw a Mockingbird in Belmont. It was 

 in full song. 



Arlington. 



Dr. Charles W. Townsend has recorded the capture, by his brother, Mr. \V. S. 

 Townsend, on August 15, 1883, of two young Mockingbirds "nearly full-grown." 



1 R. Hoffmann, Auk, XVI, 1899, 196. 



