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42. 
MIMIC THR, 
Description. 
PLacE AND 
Manners. 
T H RUS H. 
‘Turdus polyglottus, Lin. Sy. i. p.293- N° 10. 
Le grand Moqueur, Brif. orn. ii. p. 266. N° 29.—Buf. ei/. ili. p. 325.— 
Pl. enl. 558. f. 1. 
Singing Bird, Mocking Bird, or Nightingale, Raii Syx. p. 64. N° 5. p. 185. 
31.—Sloan. Fam. ii. 306. N° 34. 
The Mock Bird, Cate. Car. i. pl. 27.—Kalm. Trav. i. p. 217. ii. p. go. 
pl. 3.—4r&, Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
QIZE of a Blackbird, but more flender: length nine inches 
and a half. Bill black: irides dirty yellow: the plumage of 
an uniform grey, but much paleft on the under parts: tail four 
inches long: legs grey.—The female is like the male. 
This is common throughout America and Famaica ; but changes 
its place in the fummer, being feen much more to the northward 
than in winter. It is frequent in moift woods. The eggs are 
of apearl-celour, fpotted with brown. It builds both in bufhes 
and trees: often makes the neft near plantations, in the fruit- 
trees *; byt is as fhy as the Redftart in England; for if any one 
look at the eggs, the bird will forfake the neft. The young may 
be brought up, but it is with great difficulty, not one time in 
ten fucceeding. If the young are taken-in the neft, the mother 
will feed them for a few days, but is fure to defert them after- 
wards. 
The food chiefly confifts of berries of feveral kinds, mulberries, 
and zu/ecis; and the flefh is accounted very palatable. 
This bird is faid to be the moft excellent fongfter in the world, 
the Nightingale of Europe not excepted ; and like that frequently 
* Often in the ebony-tree. Sloane. 
fings 
