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often witnessed by the officers. At the summons—“Mockie, 
Mockie, Mockie,” the entire family would come and alight, 
even upon the lady, accepting her hospitality and permitting 
her caresses. All this was kept up through the entire winter. 
In March, 1888, occurred the great blizzard. This fearful snow 
storm invaded the retreat of the birds, interpenetrating the 
hitherto impenetrable asylum. So soon as the storm had sub- 
sided the lady went to the woods to look up her little avian 
friends. Her customary gentle call resounded through the 
dense grove. But no response came from the mockies. At 
last her pets were found on the white ground—dead! Thus, 
too, it befell many others in the colony, which was then on the 
increase. Happily a remnant survived the storm, so that 
still, representatively, Mimus polyglottus occupies this little 
elysium so typical of the once grander New Jersey home of 
his ancestors. 
