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MOCKINGBIRD 



Aug. 18, 1854. I think I saw a mockingbird on a 

 black cherry near Pedrick's. Size of and like a cat- 

 bird ; bluish-black side-head, a white spot on closed 

 wings, lighter breast and beneath ; but he flew before I 

 had fairly adjusted my glass. There were brown thrash- 

 ers with it making their clicking note. 



CATBIKD 



May 8, 1852. I hear a catbird singing within a rod 

 among the alders, but it is too dark to see him. Now he 

 stops and half angrily, half anxiously and inquisitively, 

 inquires char-char, sounding like the caw of a crow, not 

 like a cat. 



May 21, 1852. The catbird sings like a robin some- 

 times, sometimes like a blackbird's sprayey warble. 

 There is more of squeak or mew, and also of clear 

 whistle, than in the thrasher's note. 



[See also under General and Miscellaneous, p. 427.] 



BROWN THRASHER 



May 3, 1852. Hear the first brown thrasher, — two 

 of them. . . . They drown all the rest. He says cher- 

 ruwit, cherruwit ; go ahead, go ahead; give it to him, 

 give it to him ; etc., etc., etc. 



May 16, 1852. The thrasher has a sort of laugh in 

 his strain which the catbird has not. 



May 18, 1852. This afternoon the brown thrashers 

 are very numerous and musical. They plunge down- 

 ward when they leave their perch, in a peculiar way. 



