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female, I shall in this work endeavor to give a 

 minute description of the general characteristics 

 or markings which distinguish the sexes. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. The white on 

 the wing of a full grown male spreads over the 

 whole of the primaries, or longest wing feathers, 

 as well as the coverts or feathers that cover the 

 shoulders ; it reaches also well down on the wing 

 below the coverts. The two outside feathers of 

 the tail are white, and the others, except the two 

 middle ones, are tipt with white. 



On the female the white is only on seven of the 

 primaries, and is less pure, and does not descend 

 so far down, and comes farther down on the 

 broad than the narrow side of the feather. 



LOCATION. Pound on the Mississippi and 

 Ohio. In the Southern States Resident. 



BLACK-CAPPED MOCKING BIRD, OR CAT BIRD. 



This bird is familiarly known to every boy in 

 New England, from its very peculiar call while 

 partly concealed in its favorite bramble, or black- 

 berry bush, which exactly resembles the cry of a 



