210 BIRDS — TURDID^. 



Eare summer resident. Accidental in winter. The Mockingbird so 

 well known and admired as a cage bird and songster is of very rare 

 occurrence in summer of late years in this State. I took one in 1855 in 

 this vicinity. Mr. Charles Dary took two, a few years since, near Cin- 

 cinnati. Mr. Langdon records a pair as breeding in Hamilton county in 

 the same location for three successive years. He captured a specimen at 

 Madisonville, January 1, 1877, when the ground was covered with snow. 

 Dr. Kirtland stated that it was a frequent visitor in Southern Ohio. Mr. 

 Read states that it is " rarely seen in Northern Ohio," but that " single 

 pairs nested in particular localities nearly every season." Dr. Jno. Dar- 

 by, of Cleveland, informs me that a pair of these birds built their nest 

 and raised their young for several years near the residence of Dr. Kirt- 

 land, at Rockport. I have heard of a single specimen being in the 

 vicinity of this city within a couple of years. Reports of the occurrence 

 of this bird are generally to be received with caution. The name 

 " Mockingbird " is often applied to the Brown Thrush, and the Logger- 

 head Shrike is often mistaken for it by the uninitiated, and its young 

 sometimes brought to our market by the ignorant or designing, and sold 

 for young Mockingbirds. 



MiMUS CAEOLINENSIS (L.) Gr. 



Catbird. 



Tardus felivox, Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Snrv., 1838, 163. 



Mimus felivox, Bead, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 399; Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Scl., vi. 1853, 395. 



Mimus caroUnensia, Baird, P. E. E. Rep., ix, 1858, 346. — Whbaton, Ohio Agri. Eep. for 



1860, 365, 375 ; Eeprint, 1861, 7 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 562 ; 



Reprint, 1875, 2.— Langdon, Cat Birds of Cin., 1877, 3 ; Revised List, Jour. Gin. Soc, 



Nat Hist., i, 1879, 169 ; Eeprint, 3. 

 Catbird, Kirtland, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 1 — Ballou, Field and Forest, iii, 1878, 136. 

 Turdus felivox, Viellot, Ois. Am Sept., ii, 1807, 10. 

 Mimus felivo», Bonaparte. 

 Mimus caroUnensia, Gray. 

 Galeoscopies carolinensis, Baird, Bkkwbr, and Ridgway, North Am. Birds, i, 1874, 52. 



Wings but little shorter than tail. Dark slate color somewhat lighter below ; crown 

 of head, and tail black ; under tail coverts dark chestnut. Length 8 to 9 ; wing 3J 

 tail 4. 



Habitat, Nearly all the United States and British Provinces. North to 54°. West to 

 Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, and Utah. South in winter to Panama, Mexico, and 

 Cuba. Breeds throughout its range in North America. 



Abundant summer resident from April to October. Breeds abundantly. 

 This is one of our best known birds, but unfortunately he is notorious 



