Birds near Springfield, Massachusetts.— Throughout the early summer 

 of 1888, near the main highway between Springfield and Westfield, and 

 in the immediate vicinity of three farmhouses, a male Mockingbird re- 

 mained, singing incessantly. This year at exactly the same spot the bird 

 has again appeared. Although I have never seen the female, still there 

 is very little doubt that there is one there and that they bred there last 

 year and are doing the same this year. -■ 



/S^9. Jo. 3-Yo. 



The Mockingbird at Springfield, Massachusetts— For the last three sea- 

 sons a pair of Mockingbirds have located themselves at the same place in 

 West Springfield. This year the male arrived from the South on the 

 twenty-second day of April, but the female was not seen until about the 

 first of June; they both departed early in August.— Robert O. Morris, 

 Springfield, Mass. ^UK, VliJ. Jftfi, 189I.P. / / 7- 



A pair 



KtofoD 



:Iity i, 



>f Mocldngbh-ds, whose presence in West Springfield I ha 

 recorded, passed this their fourth successive season in the sar 

 :hat town.— RouERT O. Morris, $fringfield, Mass. 



Auk, 0, Jan. 18G2. p./V. 



General Notes. 



A Belated Mockingbird in Eastern Massachusetts. — On Nov. 25, 1894, 

 1 secured a male Mockingbird in good condition in a buckthorn hedge near 

 my house. The weather was rough, with squalls of snow, but not cold. 

 Previously, however, the thermometer had registered as low as 14°, with 

 snow enough to make good sleighing. 



The 'escaped cage bird ' theory, which naturally occurs at once, does 

 not apply here (unless braced up with a supplementary theory that the 

 ' the bird to make himself over), the 

 andition. 



cords for eastern Massachusetts, the 

 One reported by Torrey, Marshfield, 

 by Miller, Provincetown, Sept. 



Tiote enough to alk 

 plumage and feet being in perfect 

 There are quite a number of 1 

 latest appearing to be as follows : 

 Aug. 15, 1S89 (O. & O., Sept., 1889) 



1890 (Auk, Jan., 1891) ; one by Mackay, Nantucket, Nov. 20, 1890 

 (Auk, Jan., 1891); one by Cory (young of the year), Hyannis, Aug. 30, 

 1891 (Auk, Oct., 1891). The first named is of special interest, being in 

 the spotted plumage and accompanied by three or four others, a fair 

 inference being that a brood had been hatched in the vicinity. 



The breeding of the species farther west, near Springfield, has been a 

 matter of several records, the latest, I think, being that of R. O. Morris 

 (Auk, Jan., 1892), who says " a pair passed this, the fourth successive 

 season, in West Springfield." 



In view of the above, can we not abandon the cage bird idea for this 

 section? — F. C. 'Rv.oviti^, Framingham, Mass. _ 



Auk XII. Jan. 1895 p. 84-85 



Mockmgbird seen by E. J. Siuith at Sherborn, Mass., 

 October 23rt, 1889. Shciwert no signs of confinement, 

 tliough quite tame, allowing approach witliin a short 

 distance. 



O.&O. XIV.N( V. 1839 p. 176 



Birds of Bristol County , Mass. 

 F.W.Andros. 



Mimus polyglottos (Liun.), Mockingbird. Ac- 

 cidental visitant. One shot by Mr. J. C. 

 Cahoon on March 26th, 1883. 



O.&O. XILSepfc. 1687 p.141 



