MOCKING £lRD. ^3 



covered with recumbent hairs, or small feathers, of a cream 

 colour ; these, as in the preceding species, are thick and 

 bushy, as if designed to preserve the forehead from injury 

 during the violent action of digging ; the back is black, and 

 divided by a lateral strip of white, loose, downy, unwebbed 

 feathers ; wings, black, spotted with white ; tail-coverts, rump, 

 and four middle feathers of the tail, black ; the other three 

 on each side, white, crossed with touches of black ; whole 

 under parts, as well as the sides of the neck, white ; the latter 

 marked with a streak of black, proceeding from the lower 

 mandible, exactly as in the hairy woodpecker ; legs and feet, 

 bluish green ; claws, light blue, tipt with black ; tongue 

 formed like that of the preceding species, horny towards the 

 tip, where, for one-eighth of an inch, it is barbed ; bill, of a 

 bluish horn colour, grooved, and wedge-formed, like most of 

 the genus ; eye, dark hazel. The female wants the red on 

 the hind head, having that part white ; and the breast and 

 belly are of a dirty white. 



This, and the two former species, are generally denominated 

 Sap-suckers. They have also several other provincial appella- 

 tions, equally absurd, which it may, perhaps, be more proper 

 to suppress than to sanction by repeating. 



MOCKING BIKD. {Turdus polyglottus.) 



FLATE X.— Fig. 1. 



Mimic Thrush, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 40, No. 42. — Arct. Zool. ii. No. 194. — Turdus 

 polyglottus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 293, No. 10. — Le grand moqueur, Briss. Orn. ii. 

 p. 266, 29.— Buff. Sis. iii. p. 325. PL enl. 558, fig. 1.— Singing Bird, Mock- 

 ing Bird, or Nightingale, Raii Syn. p. 64, No. 5, p. 185, 31. — Sloan. Jam. ii. 

 306, No. '34. — The Mock Bird, Catesby, Car. i. pi. 27 .—PeaWs Museum, No. 

 5288. 



ORPHEUS POLYGLOTTUS.— Swawson. 



Turdus polyglottos, Boaap. Synop. p. 74. The Mocking Bird, Aud. pi. xxi. 

 Orn. Biog. 108. 



This celebrated and very extraordinary bird, in extent and 

 variety of vocal powers, stands unrivalled by the whole 



