324 General Notes. Yy^ 



Reappearance of the Mockingbird at Portland, Maine. — On March 6, 

 1S97, just after my note' on his previous visits had gone to press and 

 more than a fortnight after liis last appearance up to that time, the 

 Portland Mockingbird was seen by my mother in the woodbine on her 

 house. I was at once sent for to make the identification certain. I had 

 no difficulty in doing so, for he stayed quietly for a long time in the top 

 of a small tree close to the house. A period of eighteen days followed 

 during which he was not to be found, though I looked for him constantly 

 about the city and its suburbs. On March 24 he was seen by Mr. Charles 

 E. Noyes, who reported him singing. On March 28 he was seen by Mr. 

 W. H. Dennett, and was carefully studied through an opera glass within 

 a distance of some thirty yards. On neither of these occasions was he 

 more than an eighth of a mile from the spot where he first appeared in 

 January. Finally, on April 4, I met with him again myself, this time in 

 an old and little used cemetery in the same section of the city as before. 

 I walked within a few yards of him, and watched him for several minutes 

 while he disputed with some Robins the right to a cluster of sumacs, the 

 fruit of which had no doubt helped to carry him through the winter. Up 

 to the present time (June 1), I have neither seen him nor heard of him 

 since. If he stayed no later than April 4, he passed nearly eleven weeks 

 in the neighborhood of Portland at the most inclement season of the year. 

 — Nathan Clifford Bko'wj^, Portla7id, Me. 



A Mockingbird at Worcester, Mass. — A Mockingbird {Mt'mus po/y- 

 glottoi) visited us at Worcester, Massachusetts, this spring. The bird 

 was heard singing at Green Hill, April 26, was seen on the 29th, and 

 continued in the same locality through the month of May. He sang well, 

 imitating notes of the Blue Jay, Phcebe and Brown Thrasher. — Helen 

 A. Ball, Worcester, Afass. 



Breeding of Sitta canadensis in Pennsylvania. — In Warren's ' Birds of 

 Pennsylvania,' he states that this species has been "found breeding in 

 the mountainous regions" by Prof. H. J. Roddy. So far as I know tiiis 

 very general statement is all that we have on record upon which to 

 include the bird among the summer residents o'f the State. It is there- 

 fore desirable to record the following more definite information regard- 

 ing its occurrence. 



On July 4, 1S96, a young Red-breasted Nuthatch in first plumage was 

 secured by Mr. Otto Herman Behr, near Lopez, Sullivan Co., Pa. Mr. 

 S. N. Rhoads also noticed the species frequently in the vicinity of Round 

 Island, Clinton Co., Pa., May 26-June i, 1896, and later during the same 

 summer at Eaglesmere, Sullivan Co. — Witmer Stone, Academy of 

 Natural Scietices, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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