May, 1S93.] 



AND OOI.OGIST. 



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the house. Four eggs laid and hatched. 

 These were also caged and fed by old birds 

 until they were full fledged. 



C.J. Lenten, Uniontown, Ky. 



Resident, but not numerous in winter. 

 More common on high lands than low. 



Robert Ridgway. " Natural History 

 Survey of Illinois. — Ornithology of Illinois," 

 Vol. I. 



" In Illinois, as in many other States, its 

 distribution is very irregular, its absence 

 from certain localities apparently in every 

 way suited to its requirements being very 

 difficult to account for. Thus, while one or 

 two pairs breed in the outskirts of Mt. Car- 

 mel nearly every season, it is nowhere in 

 that vicinity a common bird. Thirty miles 

 further north, however, in the vicinity of 

 Olney, where the country is more open, I 

 have found it almost abundant, on one occa- 

 sion six males having been seen and heard 

 singing along the roadside during a three 

 miles drive from town. 



" Mr. H. K. Coale informs me that he 

 saw a Mocking-bird in Starke County, Ind., 

 60 miles southeast of Chicago, January i, 

 1884; that Mr. Green Smith had met with 

 it at Kensington Station, 111., and that several 

 had been obsened in the parks and door- 

 yards of Chicago. In the extreme southern 

 portion of the State the species is abundant 

 in suitable localities, and is resident through 

 the year." (Olney is in No. 79 on the 

 map.) 



Robert Kennicott. " Catalogue of Birds 

 Obser\ed in Cook County, Illinois." (Trans. 

 111. State Agric. Soc, I, 1853-55.) 



"Rare; known to nest in Cook County." 

 (No. 7). 



H. Praftei/. " Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Illinois, Wayne and Edwards Counties." 

 (Nos. 82 and 83.) Trans. 111. State Agric. 

 Soc, I., 1853-55. 



" Mocking-bird." (No remarks made.) 



Ridgway. " Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Illinois." Bulletin of the Illinois Museum 

 of Natural History, Vol. I. 



" Entire State, but very local, even in 

 southern part, where resident." 



"O. d- O.," Vol. 9, July and August, 1884. 



" List of Birds Collected near St. Louis, 

 Mo., Julius Hurter." (Madison County, No. 

 73. map.) 



" Summer resident ; abundant." 



"0. & O.," Vol. 8, Februar\', 1883. 



A. H. Mundt, Fairburj^, Livingston County 

 (No. 23 on map). 



" Mocking-birds have built here for sev- 

 eral years. Though scarce, are increasing 

 every season." 



E. W. A'e/sofK Bulletin Essex Institute, 

 \'ol. VIIL, December. " Birds of North- 

 eastern Illinois." 



" Mocking-bird : A very rare summer res- 

 ident. I know of but few instances of its 

 occurrence in the vicinity of Chicago. Dr. 

 Hoy has recorded six nests obtained in the 

 vicinity of Racine, Wis." 



S. IV. Nelson. " Birds observed in 

 Southern Illinois between July 17 and Sep- 

 tember 4, 1875." Bulletin of the I'.ssex In- 

 stitute, Vol. IX., 1877. 



Cairo and vicinity. 



" Mocking-bird : Rare. Only observed 

 at Mound City." (Six miles above Cairo.) 



Not given by Everman in his " Birds of 

 Carroll County, Ind." 



W. S. Cobleigh. No. 33. 



Has found it a summer resident. Arrives 

 about the middle of May. .Are quite rare. 

 Has found it breeding. Nests placed in haw 

 trees about 6 feet from ground ; composed 

 of twigs, rootlets, etc., lined with feathers. 



Nests about the last of May. Thinks they 

 raise two broods. 



Set, 4 to 6 eggs, of a greenish ground 

 color, marked with blotches of chocolate and 

 purple; size, .98X.78. 



Charles W. Tindall. No. 54. 



Summer resident. Not common. 



Nest on June 2 1 . Two pairs seen during 

 two years, from 1890 to 1892. Nest con- 

 tained 3 eggs, hatched on June 25. 



From the information at hand, it would 



