Cat-bird 481 
the lining only was renewed each year. The eggs, four 
or five in number, are light greenish or blueish, spotted 
with several shades of yellow-brown. They measure 
‘98 x ‘74, and are to be found about the beginning of 
June (Gale and Dille). 
Miss Myra Eggleston reports (Rockwell) that at Grand 
Junction they raise two broods each season. A clutch 
of two eggs taken on June 10th from a nest made of 
horsehair and old rags, built in the school-house yard 
at Evans, Weld co., is preserved in the Colorado College 
Museum. They were taken and presented by Ivan Hall. 
Genus DUMETELLA. 
Very closely allied to Mimus, but the tarsal scutellation often very 
indistinct, and the plumage without white on the wings and tail. 
One North American species. 
Cat-bird. Dumetella carolinensis. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 704—Colorado Records—Allen 72, p. 147; 
Trippe 74, p. 228 ; Henshaw 75, p. 152 ; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 153 ; 
Drew 85, p. 15; Beckham 85, p. 140; Morrison 88, p. 71; Cooke 97, 
pp. 19, 119, 221; Dille 03, p. 74; Henderson 03, p. 237; 09, p. 240; 
Warren 06, p. 24; 08, p. 25 ; Gilman 07, p. 194; Markman 07, p. 158 ; 
Rockwell 08, p. 177; Hersey & Rockwell 09, p. 121. 
Description.—Male—General colour above and below slaty-grey, 
darker above, lighter below ; crown, nape and tail sooty-black, the 
wings the same but edged with slaty ; under tail-coverts rich chestnut ; 
iris brown, bill black, legs dark horny. Length 8-40; wing 3.60; 
tail 4-0; culmen -65 ; tarsus 1-05. 
The female is very similar, but the crown is generally a little tess 
sooty, the chestnut of the under tail-coverts less conspicuous, and 
it is slightly smaller—wing 3-55. In a young bird the colours are 
again less defined, the under-parts obsoletely spotted with darker and 
the under tail-coverts paler or even fawn colour. 
Distribution.—Breeding from British Columbia and Oregon to Texas, 
and from Nova Scotia to northern Florida, wintering in the southern 
States, West Indies and eastern Mexico to Panama. 
In Colorado the Cat-bird is a fairly common summer resident in the 
plains and foothills of the eastern half of the State, but is a good deal 
less plentiful on the western slope; it breeds in the mountains up to 
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