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ticular place and remaining there just long enough to have 

 given some food to the female and then flying back again to his 

 perch. I cannot say whether he did actually feed his mate or 

 not, but his actions so indicated. Pie-cherries were ripe just at 

 this time on a tree close by and seemed to be their principal 

 food. The male could mimic to perfection the notes of the Kill- 

 deer, the Bluebird, and the Blue-jay, and I also noticed the 

 songs of the Whip-poor-will, Catbird, Flicker, Plover, and 

 Robin in his repertoire. I saw the old birds no more after the 

 last week in July, and the young not at all. — W. E. Roberts. 



II. 



A PAIR of Mockingbirds that came under my observation 

 reared two broods of young at Concordville, Delaware County, 

 Pa. , during the summer of 1896. They were first reported in 

 the vicinity about May 15, although I did not see them myself 

 until about the first of July. By that time they had constructed 

 a nest similar to that of a Robin, but without the mud and a 

 little smaller. It was situated in a small evergreen by the side 

 of the road about four feet from the ground. The eggs hatched 

 during late cherry time, toward the end of June, and the pits 

 in the nest bear evidence that the birds fed on the cherries of a 

 near by tree. At the time I saw the birds they uttered only the 

 alarm notes, showing none of their remarkable abilities, though I 

 was informed that they sang somewhat like the Thrasher. The 

 pair raised a second brood after the first were on the wing, 

 building this time in an osage hedge close to a road, and some 

 two hundred yards from the site of the first nest. They flew 

 about later with their entire brood, numbering eight birds, four 

 from each nest, and disappeared about the end of August. 

 There could be no mistake in their identity, as they were 

 identified by several persons independently, and carefully com- 

 pared with the plate and description in Warren's "Birds of 

 Pennsylvania." — Wm. E. Hannum. 



