MIMIC THRUSH. , 233 



XXI. THRUSH. Gen, Birds. XLII. 



Mock-bird. Cate/iy, l.—La-wfon, 143. ,^_^_ Mimic, 



Le Moqueur, De Buffon, 01/. ii. 323.— i>/. Enl. 645 BriJJhn, ii. 262.— 



Latham, iii, 40. 

 Tardus Polyglottos, T. Orpheus, Lin. Syft. 293.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



TH. With a black bill and legs : head, neck, back, and lefTer 

 coverts on the ridge of the wing, afh-colored : the other 

 coverts dufky, flightly edged with white: quil feathers black; white 

 on their lower parts : under fide of the body white : tail very lono-j 

 the middle feathers dufky j two outmoft feathers white; the ex- 

 terior margins black. 



The breaft of the female of a dirty white. 



The Leffer, Ed-w. 78. 



■p\IFFERS from the former in having a. white line over each eye? 

 and in being fomewhat inferior in fize.. Jamaica *. 



Varied. Tetroapan, Fernanae%, 38; 



V^^ITH a fpotted breaft; probably a young bird of one of the 

 others. 



Thefe birds ftiun the cold parts of ^»/m<:^ ; and are found from Place, 



the province of New York as far fouth as Mexico- and the Antilles. 

 They are fo impatient of the rigorous feafon,, as to retire at ap- 

 proach of winter from all the provinces north of Carolina or Vir- 

 ginia. In the firft they inhabit the whole year. They vifit New 

 Turk in Jpril, or the beginning of May, but are rather fcarce in- 

 that part o{ America : they, breed there in June, and lay five or fix 

 blue eggs, thickly fpotted with dull red.. 



They build often in fruit trees -f ; are very familiar, and love to 

 be converfant about dwellings ; and, during fummer, ufually deliver 



* Shane, ii. 306. f Lanufon. 



their; 



