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Mr. Vfa. Brewster, 



Qanibridge, Mass. 



Dear Sir;- 



I thought you might be interested to know that on Sunday 

 the 15th., there was a mock ing bird about my house'' all the morn- 

 ing. I got a look at Mm several t imes. He made himself quite at 

 home. I do not think it was a caged bird and by the notes it gave, 

 I judged it was a male. 



Yours truly, 



M. Abbott Frazar. 



A Mockingbird near Boston. — I observed a Mockingbird (Mimus 

 polyglottos) at Roslindale, a suburb of Boston, March 23 of this year. I 

 had learned of the bird's presence through Mrs. S. Stevens of Roslindale, 

 who saw him first Feb. 27 and afterward several times during March. 

 She last observed the bird March 27. When I saw him he was in full 

 song and mocked with varying degrees of accuracy, the songs of the 

 Bluebird, Robin, White-eyed Vireo and Bobolink, the long call of the 

 Downy Woodpecker, and the wick-up call or song of the Flicker. I 

 detected no hint of any domestic sound in his mimicking, and this, together 

 with tire fact that his tail-feathers were in perfect condition, suggest that 

 he was a wild bird and not an escaped captive. This Mockingbird was 

 very likely the same as the one observed on several different dates and in 

 localities at some little distance from this by Dr. A. L. Reagh. — Francis 

 H. Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. Auk, XIX, July, 1002, V-ZfZ 



