PASSERES— TURD [DAE -MIMUS rOLYGLOTTUS. 



151 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



BUI. 



Tarsus. 







Nevada 



Fairfield, Utah 



Fountain Green, Utah. 

 do 



June 20, 1S71 

 Aug. 1, 1S72 

 Aug. 20, 1S72 

 do 



F. Bischoff . 











157 

 114 



n 3 

 «43 



156 

 171 



3 l 3 



A2 

 401 



513 

 712 

 7S0 

 601 

 126 



H 

 614 



225 

 102 



<?jun. 

 9jun. 

 <?jun. 

 S ad. 

 9 ad. 

 S ad. 

 0" ad. 



S ad. 

 9 ad. 

 1 ad. 

 9jun. 

 9jun. 

 Jun. 

 9jun. 

 9 ad. 



9 

 c?juu. 













H. W. Henshaw. 











do 











Salina, Utah 



Sept. 5, 1S72 

 Aug. 1, 1S72 

 Sept. 17, 1S72 

 Oct. 16, 1S72 



do 









' 



Fairfield, Utah 



Toquerville, Utah 























H. W. Henshaw and 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 

 do 



















Alkali Lakes, Colo 



Cave Spring, Ariz 



Camp Apache, Ariz 



Gila River, Arizona . 



Camp Goodwin, Ariz.. 



Camp Bowie, Ariz 



do 



June 22, 1S73 

 Aug. 1, 1S73 

 Sept. 7, 1S73 

 Sept. 15, 1S73 

 Sept. 19, 1S73 

 Oct. 10, 1873 

 Oct. 7, 1S73 

 Sept. 15, 1S74 

 Sept. 11, 1S74 

 Aug. 6, 1874 



H. W. Henshaw 



H. \V. Henshaw 



do 



3.9S 

 3.S6 



3-92 

 3-9^ 

 3-90 

 3-77 

 3-75 

 3.82 



3- S3 

 3-SS 



3- §3 

 3. So 

 4.02 

 3-90 

 3-66 

 3-S9 

 3- 6 5 

 3.6S 



3-72 

 3.7S 



0.77 

 0.6S 

 0.65 

 0.66 

 0.62 

 0.65 



o.75 

 0.65 

 0. 70 

 0.66 



1. 17 

 1. 17 



'•15 



1. 17 



*• l 3 



1. 17 

 1. 19 

 1. 16 

 1. 14 

 1. 14 



J. L. McGee 



H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. C. G. Newberry .. 

 do 



Camp Lowell, Ariz 



Navajo Creek, N. Mex. 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 





MIMUS TOLYGLOTTUS (L.). 



Mocking-bird. 



Tardus pobjglottus, Linn., Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 175S, 1G9; 12th ed., 1700, 293. 



Mimus polyglottus, Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. ZuDi & Col. Riv., 1854. 72. 



Merimis [sic] polyglottus, Be, Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-5S, pt. iv, 5. — Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 344.— Heerm., P. R. R, Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 44.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bemud. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, birds, 12. — Kenneely, P. R. R. Rep., Whipp. Route, 

 1859, 25.— Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 303 (Cape St. Lucas).— 

 Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800, 05. — Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 

 21.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 8.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 74, f. 10 — 

 Allen, Bul. Mus. Couip. Zoiil., iii, 1872, 174 (Eastern and Middle Kansas). — 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 97. — Coues, IT. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1S74, S.— Bd., Brew.. & Ridg., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 49. 



The Mocking-bird was not observed in the vicinity of Santa F6 ; its 

 absence here being doubtless due rather to the nature of the locality being 

 unfavorable to its habits than to any other cause. A few miles to the south, 

 the species began to appear on the heavily brushed streams, and the varied 

 and melodious notes of its many tongued songs frequently enlivened our 

 day's weary march. As we passed southward, their numbers continually 

 increased, until, in the neighborhood of Camp Bowie, in early August, it wis 



