352 Stonk. Bird Migration Records of William Bartram. 



rAuk 

 I July 



1802. April 22. 



1803. April 24. 

 1806. April 22. 

 L808. April 24. 



Latest autumn records are 



1803. October 8. 



1804. October 14. 



1805. November 6. 



1806. October 7. 

 Other entries are: 

 1804. July 24 



1807. July 16 

 1818, August 1 

 1820. January 8 



January 9. 

 January 10. 



Catbird yel gives us short songs. 



Catbird ceases singing. 



Catbird done moulting, 



Was surprised al bearing the voice of the Catbird 



in the garden. 

 The Catbird feeding on the berries of Sideroxylon. 

 Tempestuous, toward evening began to snow 

 which soon covered the ground. Catbird yet 

 in the garden. 



Mimus polyglottos polyglottos. Mockingbird. 



This bird now only an accidental straggler in eastern Pennsylvania was 

 apparently of regular occurrence at the time the journal was written. 

 The references to it are given in full. 



1802. January 5. Mocking Bird (Turd us polyglottos) not yet left 



us on his passage to the south. 



December '2. Mocking bird yet with vis. 

 December 4, 13, l.\ 20. Mock bird. 



1803. January 19, 22. Mock bud. 



October 29. Mockbird on his passage southerly. 



November S. Mockbird yet with us, being northern passengers 



on their journey southward, feeding on SmilaX 



&C. 

 November IS, December 10, 26, 31. Mockbird yet. 



1804. January 1, 3, 6. Mockbird. [very cold weather then ensued]. 

 November '-. Mockingbird with us on his passage southerly. 



1820. April 18. Mockingbird arrives from the south, caught a 



male one in a trap-cage bated with a female 



one, 



April 'JO. Caught another Mockingbird in trap-cage, 



Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus. Carolina Wkbn. 



In the earlier records this bird is called the 'Great Yellow-throated' or 

 ' Great Yellow-breasted Wren ' but in 1820 it is the ' Great Carolina Wren '. 



