320 THE BIRDS 
FAMILY MIMID/E.—THRASHERS, | 
MOCKING BIRDS, ETC. 
GENUs MIMUS. 
[703]. Mimus polyglottos polyglottos (Linnwus). 
Mockingbird. 
Raneu.—Southeastern United States, chiefly in Austral 
zones, from eastern Nebraska, southern Towa, Ihnois, 
Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland, south to eastern Texas, 
southern Florida, and the Bahamas, and sparingly to New 
York and Massachusetts; accidental in Wisconsin, 
Ontario, Maine, and Nova Scotia; introduced in 
Bermuda. 
Probably the Mockingbird is the best-known bird by 
all classes of people of any in the southland, and this 
State will prove no exception to the rule. Undoubtedly, 
he is our finest songster, and as a mocker of other birds 
he has no equal. In this section he remains throughout 
the coldest winter, and no matter how severe the weather, 
be the sun out ever so little, his cheery notes may be heard. 
When singing at his best, during breeding season, his 
finest notes are uttered from a lofty perch, and around. 
the farm, the house chimney, or weather-vane on the barn, 
seems his favorite place. <A cedar tree is generally selected 
for a nest location if one be handy, though clumps of 
honeysuckle, second-growth holly clumps, and other low 
bushes are utilized. The nests are composed of fine 
sticks and twigs, dry leaves and rootlets, lined with fine 
evasses or rootlets, rather bulky and loosely made, and 
