The Haibkeye 0. and r 0. 17 



with great interest. "Would like to state here that I have sewsral 

 times seen the Mockingbird walking on the ground, advancing 

 first one foot and then the other, just like a Crow or other walk- 

 ing bird. 



The Mockingbird builds a strong, substantial nest of small 

 sticks, twigs etc., lined with dried grass and occasionally horse- 

 hair. The usual position is in an osage or other thorny tree, at a 

 height varying from three to ten feet. It is . occasionally placed 

 on a stump covered with brush, but always in a place rather diffi- 

 cult of access from thorns, etc. The nest being bulky is easily 

 found, and so many young ones are taken from the nest every 

 year that I wonder any are left. 



The eggs are four in number, greenish blue with large spots of 

 dirty brown, chocolate and purple. They measure l.Q0x.75. 



NOTES FROM CHARLESTON. 



BY J. DEAYTON FOfi©. 



1 have read with considerable interest the many interesting ar- 

 ticles on birds in the H. O. and O., and noticed that very few of 

 them came from this State. 



Among our Summer visitors is the Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 (Coccyzus americanus) the prettiest and the laziest of all the 

 Cuculidas family. 



In the Spring of 18851 found a nest of this bird at Summer- 

 ville, S. C, containing two eggs. I took one and the next morn 

 ing two more were there; again I took one and next day it still 

 contained two. This was kept up until the bird had laid seven 

 eggs, when she evidently became tired of her unprofitable layim>- 

 and abandoned the nest, leaving me in full possession. It was 

 then that I noticed that in the first egg laid, and which she had 

 sat on during the seven days, incubation was considerably 

 advanced. The variation in the size of these eggs was very con- 

 siderable; the first being the smallest and the last the laro-est 



