48 Tue Witson BuLietin, No. 74. 
this nest tried to peck my hand as I placed it above them; 
they acted like trained soldiers, all pecking at exactly the same 
time, as if at a word of command. 
Mockingbird (JZimus polyglottos)—This species is be 
coming more common each year. Although straggling birds 
had been seen previous to this time, the first nest was dis- 
covered May 21st, 1907. It was placed among the diverging 
twigs in an osage orange hedge fence, four miles east of Cir- 
cleville, along a much travelled road and contained four eggs. 
The next set taken in the county was taken by Mr. W. Leon 
Dawson, June 2nd, 1909. Mr. Dawson was spending the day 
with me and the birds, and while we were driving along a 
road, eight miles west of Circleville, we heard the male sing- 
ing. A hedge fence grew along one side of the road, and as 
the cover was the right kind for nests of this species, Mr. 
Dawson began searching the hedge and soon found the nest, 
which contained four eggs apparently well along in incubation. 
I took another set of four of this species on June Ist, 1910, 
from a red haw bush in a blue grass pasture about a mile 
from where the Dawson set was taken. This locality has been 
noted for several years for its mockingbirds. -One pair nest- 
ing near the residence of Mr. W. H. Reid, a close bird student, 
reared three broods in 1908. I shot a male from a wild rose 
thicket at Calamus Pond on February 21st, 1909. The stom- 
ach contained fruits and seeds of wild rose. The mockers 
that breed near Mr. Reid’s arrived from the south, March 
11th, 1908, and March 28th, 1910. All of the nests of this 
species that have come under my observation have been rather 
loosely put together, but all have been distinguished by having 
the lining of fine pale yellowish brown rootlets that contrast 
sharply with the dark body of the nest. 
