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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



that the bird is more common as a visitor and that, as it is received more kindly, 

 it stays longer and comes again. It is also to be hoped that it is extending its 

 range and is becoming a permanent resident. The bird has been recorded at all 

 seasons of the year, and it has nested and raised young several times. Mr. F. B. 

 Currier found them nesting at Newburyport, in 1914. Four young grew to full 

 size. A second pair nested the same year. In 1915, two pairs also nested; one 

 in 1916; and two in 1917. 



The following are the records of birds for the County I have been able to 

 collect in addition to those recorded in the original Memoir: 



Date Locality Observer 



Nov. 7 and Dec. 16, 1893 Amesbury. B. F. Damsell. 



Spring, igoi Pigeon Cove. Mrs. Marshall. 



Dec. 20, igos, to Jan. 19, 1906 Nahant. Mrs. E. Bridge and 



H. W. Wright. 



Jan. to Apr. 26, 1908 Ipswich. Miss S. E. Lakeman. 



June, 1908 Newburyport. S. W. Bailey. 



Sept. 20, 21, 1910 Pigeon Cove. C. R. Lamb. 



Nov., 1910 (later killed by a cat) Danvers. Mrs. E. S. Fowler. 



Aug. 26 to 28, 1911 (two) Ipswich. C. W. Townsend. 



Feb. 9, 1912 W. Gloucester. J. Kittredge, Jr. 



Oct. 19, 1913 Hamilton. C. J. Maynard. 



Summer, 1914 (three) Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Sept. 6 to 8, 1914 Ipswich. C. W. Townsend. 



Winter, 1914-15 Newburyport. J. P. O'Neil. 



Summer, 1915 (two families) Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Winter, 1915-16 Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Aug. 28, 1916 Ipswich. C. W. Townsend. 



Summer, 1916 Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Winter, 1916-17 Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Jan. 17 to May 9, 1917 Pigeon Cove. Mrs. Babson. 



Summer, 1917 (two pairs) Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



July II, 1917 Newburyport. F. P. Woodbury. 



Winter, 1917-18 Newburyport. F. B. Currier. 



Entire year, 1918 (found injured and given to Pea- 

 body Acad. Sci.) Danvers. A. B. Fowler. 



Nov. IS, 1918 Rowley. J. D. Sornborger. 



Spring, 1919 (two, one taken) Danvers. A. B. Fowler. 



Mr. S. Waldo Bailey^ reported a Mockingbird that remained for nearly a 

 week in Newburyport and sang exceptionally well. He was able to recognize the 

 songs or notes of twenty-nine species of birds in its imitations. 



The courtship display of the white in the wings and tail of the Mockingbird 

 is at its best when the bird flies up a few feet in the air with wings and tail spread. 

 It also flies slowly in full song from perch to perch. 



1 Bailey, S. W. Auk, vol. 28, pp. 372, 373, 191 1. 



