THE BH7DS OF M:\\ .ll-'JJSF.Y. 5}95 



niu' ]i;iii- were pixvciit in 1SS"3. A colony still cxislofl on S;in<ly Hook 

 at least to 1892, tlioiio-h it suffered sowivlv in tlio Mizzanl of ISSS. 



l\rr. Henry Hales states that a paii' \)ivd near Uidgewood in 1884, 

 and one bird was seen in I^ovember, 1902.^ 



On August 27th, 1891. I secured a single bird at Cape ^lay Point, 

 and ^Fr. AV. L. Baily got a young one in juvenal plumage in 1895 at 

 ir.lly I'.i'ach. In Augnsi. 1897. Mr. Bailv saw an adult at Cape .May, 

 one at Ocean View, ^farch 30th, 1901, and another at Wildwood. De- 

 cember 27tli. 1903. Mr. 1). X. McCadden saw two at Stone Harbor, 

 Septembei- 4tli, 1903, and Miss C. Murphy reported one at Point 

 Pleasant throughout the winter of 1902-3. 



At F>each Haven ^Ir. I. X. DeHaven saw one during the summer of 

 1906, and Mr. Jolni Lewis Childs records a pair at Barnegat all suin- 

 mer in 1900.- 



Professor A. 11. Philipps secured a young one near Princeton some 

 years ago.^ 



704 Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus). 

 Catbird. 



PLATE 76. 



Adults. — Length. 8-0.25. Wing. 3.60. Above and below, slate-gray, paler 

 beneath : entire top of head as well as tail, black : under tail-coverts, chestnut. 

 Female sometimes with the black a little duller. 



Young in first summer. — Dull gray, indistinctly mottled with brown edgings 

 below, and lacking the black cap ; under tail-coverts, brownish. 



ycst of leaves, twigs and grass and occasionally pieces of paper, in thickets ; 

 eggs, three to five, deep greenish-blue, .95 x .70. 



Common summer resident. Arrives April 21st (April 29th), de- 

 parts October 18th. 



Equally at honre in the swampy thickets or in the shrubbery of the 

 garden, the Catbird is familiar to all. The gray dress and the irri- 

 tating, complaining cry serve to identify him. 



His song is a medley of notes similar to that of the Thrasher, but 

 more subdued, and usually given from tlie very middle of some dense 

 eluni]) of bushes. 



' Bird Lore. 1!)()4. p. l.'U. 



-'Auk. ]!)«»( I. p. .3!t(l. 



■' Birds of Princeton, p. 77. 



