C If. MerrliOii — Binl-< of (Unuiecticnt. 7 



Sept. 4tli (1S74, Hall) to Oct. l:!(li. In tlic iall it is iK.t imcnininniij y 



fdund ill flocks of a dozen or tit'trcu in low swanipy w is w hcic 



there is an almndance of nnderuiow tli. 



All. TurduS SwainSOni, var. Aliciae (Baird) Coues. Gray-chceki'd Tlirnsli. 



Occurs, during migrations, witli tlie foregoing, and is more coimnon 

 in tlie vicinity of New Haven — ^judging from tlie proportionate niiiii- 

 l)er of skins in private collections about here. Near Portland, Comi., 

 on the contrary, the true S^oainsoni type seems to predominate — as 

 shown l)y speciinens in the cabinets of W. W. Coe and John H. Sage. 



5. TurdUS fuSCeSCens Stephens. Wilson's Tlirush. 



A summer resident; breeds. Arrives early in May (May S). Com- 

 mon in the immediate vicinity of New Haven, especially during the 

 spring migrations. 



6. MimUS polyglottUS (Linne) Boie. Mocking-bird. 



A rare summer visitant; used to breed here and may occasionally'' 

 do so now. Mr. Geo. Bird Grinnell has taken it near Milford, Conn. 

 Mr. Erwin I. Shores wiites me, on the authority of Milton T.ester, 

 that it has been killed at Suftield, Conn. Mr. J. N. Clark thinks that 

 it bred pretty regularly at Saybrook, Conn., many years ago; and I 

 am informed by ]Mr. Osborne that he saw one above the Whitney 

 Lakes, near New Haven, May 30th, 1877. Also taken late in the fall 

 of 18V4, by Mr. William Brewster, near Concord, Mass.f "Stratford 

 and New Haven," Linsley. 



There can be little doubt but that Mocking-birds were once com- 

 mon in Connecticut, Rhode Island,' and Massachusetts, if not still 

 farther north. In an appendix to the Mass. Agricultural Kejiort for 

 1863, Samuels gives it as a "rare summer visitant," stating that it 

 "occasionally breeds;" and in 1864 Allen says that they "have been 

 known to breed in Springfield several times within five years, and in 

 1860 two pairs nested here. June 20tli, 18G0, I found a nest contain- 

 ing three freshly laid eggs Locality, a sandy field gi-owing 



up to pitch pines, in one of which the nest was placed, about three 

 feet from the ground."^ 



* A Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut, arranged according to their natural 

 families; by Rev. James H. Linsley, published in Am. Jour, of Sci. an.l Arts, 

 vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 255. April, 1843. 



•f- Rod and Gun, vol. v, No. 24, p. 370, Mar. 13, ISTo. 



X Catalogue of the Birds found at Si)ringfic]d. Mass., by J. A. Allen, pp. r,7-S. isr,4. 



