324 General Notes. hie 
Reappearance of the Mockingbird at Portland, Maine.— On March 6, 
1897, just after my note! on his previous visits had gone to press and 
more than a fortnight after his last appearance up to that time, the 
Portland Mockingbird was seen by my mother in the woodbine on her 
house. I was at once sent for to make the identification certain. I had 
no difficulty in doing so, for he stayed quietly'for a long time in the top 
of a small tree close to the house. A period of eighteen days followed 
during which he was not to be found, though I looked for him constantly 
about the city and its suburbs. On March 24 he was seen by Mr. Charles 
E. Noyes, who reported him singing. On March 28 he was seen by Mr. 
W. H. Dennett, and was carefully studied through an opera glass within 
a distance of some thirty yards. On neither of these occasions was he 
more than an eighth of a mile from the spot where he first appeared in 
January. Finally, on April 4, ] met with him again myself, this time in 
an old and little used cemetery in the same section of the city as before. 
I walked within a few yards of him, and watched him for several minutes 
while he disputed with some Robins the right to a cluster of sumacs, the 
fruit of which had no doubt helped to carry him through the winter. Up 
to the present time (June 1), I have neither seen him nor heard of him 
since. If he stayed no later than April 4, he passed nearly eleven weeks 
in the neighborhood of Portland at the most inclement season of the year. 
— NATHAN CLIFFORD Brown, Portland, Me. 
A Mockingbird at Worcester, Mass.—A Mockingbird (A@imus poly- 
elottos) visited us at Worcester, Massachusetts, this spring. The bird 
was heard singing at Green Hill, April 26, was seen on the 29th, and 
continued in the same locality through the month of May. Hesang well, 
imitating notes of the Blue Jay, Phoebe and Brown Thrasher. — HELEN 
A. BALL, Worcester, Mass. 
Breeding of Sitta canadensis in Pennsylvania. —In Warren’s ‘ Birds of 
Pennsylvania,’ he states that this species has been “found breeding in 
the mountainous regions” by Prof. H. J. Roddy. So far as I know this 
very general statement is all that we have on record upon which to 
include the bird among the summer residents of the State. It is there- 
fore desirable to record the following more definite information regard- 
ing its occurrence. 
On July 4, 1896, a young Red-breasted Nuthatch in first plumage was 
secured by Mx. Otto Herman Behr, near Lopez, Sullivan Co., Pa. Mr. 
S. N. Rhoads also noticed the species frequently in the vicinity of Round 
Island, Clinton Co., Pa., May 26-June 1, 1896, and later during the same 
summer at Eaglesmere, Sullivan Co.— WiITMER STONE, Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 
1 Auk, Vol. XIV, pp. 224-225. 
