202 HABITS OF BIRDS. 
harsh note, which belongs to no other native bird, 
though it has a distant resemblance to the chirr of 
the whitethroat. Indeed, the mockbird, both in its 
size and colour, as well as in its habits, is so like 
the whitethroat as to be often confounded with it.’’* 
There are several American birds, however, much 
more celebrated as mockers or imitators than this 
little sedgebird. We shall only particularize three, 
the polyglot-chat, the blue-jay, and the bird univer- 
sally designated the mocking-bird. 

The Polyglot-Chat, 
The polyglot-chat (Pipra polyglotta, Wu.son) was 
* Edin. Mag., Jan., 1819, p. 30. 
