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HABITS OP 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, WILSON) was 

 * Edin. Mag., Jan., 1819,' p. 10. 



