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 GENUS 32. TURDUS. THRUSH. 



SPECIES 1. T. POLYGLOTTUS. 

 MOCKING-BIRD. 

 [Plate X. Fig. 1.] 



Mimic Thrush, LATH, Syn, in, p. 40, JVo. 42. Arct. Zool. n, JVo. 

 194. Turdus pidyglottus, LINN. Syst. i, p. 293, JVo. 10, Le 

 grand Moqueur, BRISS. Orn. n, p. 266, 29. BUFF. Ois. in, p. 

 32J. PJ. AW. 558, Jig. 1. Singing-bird, Mocking-bird, or 

 Nightingale, RAII Syn. p. 64, JVo. 5, p. 185, 31. SLOAN, Jam. 

 n, 306, JVo. 34. 7%e Mock-bird, CATESB. Car. i, PJ, 27. 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 5288. 



THIS celebrated and very extraordinary bird, in extent and 

 variety of vocal powers, stands unrivalled by the whole feathered 

 songsters of this or perhaps any other country; and shall receive 

 from us, in this place, all that attention and respect which su- 

 perior merit is justly entitled to. 



Among the many novelties which the discovery of this part 

 of the western continent first brought into notice, we may reckon 

 that of the Mocking-bird; which is not only peculiar to the new 

 world, but inhabits a very considerable extent of both North 

 and South America; having been traced from the states of New 

 England to Brazil; and also among many of the adjacent islands. 

 They are, however, much more numerous in those states south, 

 than in those north, of the river Delaware; being generally 

 migratory in the latter, and resident (at least many of them) in 

 the former. A warm climate, and low country, not far from 

 the sea, seem most congenial to their nature; accordingly we 

 find the species less numerous to the west than east of the great 

 range of the Alleghany, in the same parallels of lattitude. In 

 the severe winter of 1808-9, I found these birds, occasionally, 



