! Mocking Bird at Newport, R. I. Xj 



Editor of O. &. O. :— 



While sketching along the Clilf Walk at New- 

 port, R. I., a week or so ago (Nov. 2.) I was 

 much surprised to see a mocking bird among 

 the shrubbery. When first seen, it was per- 

 ched upon the roof of a rustic arbor and sing- 

 ing in a low tone. 



As 1 remained perfectly still, it was not 

 alarmed, but when I made a sudden movement, \ 

 , it flew to a thicket near by, and the white of 



L the tail, and wing-bars was very conspicuous, 



f At one time I was not further than ten feet 



from the bird, and there can be no room for 

 £7.fc)0, doubt as to the species. ! 



^ii-. uec. lb , J p/;^ ^^^^^^^ Gordon White. I 

 Haverhill, Mass. j 



j A Mockingbird in Rhode Island. — Miss Julia Herreshoff of Bristol, 



j R. I., communicates to me the following in a letter dated November 8, 

 1910: "The Mockingbird came with the Blackbirds, first noticed March 12 

 (1910). He was near the house for a fortnight and then deserted his 

 black friends for Robins and lived at the Old House (the Herreshoff home- 

 stead next door). I did not see him after July 25 when tenants took pos- 

 session. He was quite friendly though I think by his early coming there 

 was no chance of liis being an escaped cage-bird." — Reginald Heber 

 Howe, Jb., Thoreau Museum, Concord, Mass. 



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