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•vvToyixv 'cimr Mnnn vain 

 General Notes. 



The Mockingbird in Wyoming.— During tire afternoon of May lo, I 

 was collecting birds among the stunted cottonwoods and willow brush of 

 Crow Creek about two miles east of Cheyenne, when I drove out a large 

 gray bird which appeared from a distance to be an entire stranger to me. 

 I chased it down creek a quarter of a mile, when it doubled on me and 

 went back to the place from which I at first flushed it. I was unable to 

 get near enough to kill with No. I2 shot, but was compelled to use a 

 charge of No. 6, and at a distance of sixty-five yards, while on the wing, 

 brought down my specimen. The bird proved to be Mitmis folyglottos in 

 fine plumage. Continuing down creek another Mockingbird was flushed 

 from the willow brush but was too wild for me to capture it that evening, 

 although I devoted a full hour to the chase, following the bird for a mile 

 or more. The next morning, the iith of May, I visited the same locality 

 and found my bird again, but only succeeded in shooting it after stalking 

 it, antelope fashion, by crawling prone upon the ground for sixty j'ards 

 tlirough stunted rose bushes. I succeeded in getting near enough, how- 

 ever, to shoot the bird with No. I2 shot. I have mounted both birds and 

 placed them in the Cheyenne High School collection. 



On May 23 while collecting about a half mile below where these two 

 birds were shot, I heard a singer which I at first thought was a Brown 

 Thrasher, but on listening I heard strange notes and at once concluded it 

 was another Mockingbird. The singer was located in a clump of willows 

 about forty yards from the creek, and an equal distance from the nearest 

 willow brush. I tried a charge of the small shot but did not reach him. 

 He flew out and I killed him with No. 6 shot on the wing, the bird falling 

 about seventy yards from where I stood. The individual killed on the 

 evening of the loth was a female and the other two were males. All 

 were fat and their stomachs were well filled with worms and water grubs, 

 larvae, etc. Their feet were perfect in every way, the claws being sharp 

 and showing not the slightest indication of having grasped the perch of 

 a bird cage; and besides, the birds were exceedingly wild and shy. Then 

 again cage birds as rare as the Mockingbird is hi this latitude, and espe- 

 cially locality, do not go about in flocks, so, on the whole, I am satisfied 

 that the birds came north with a flock of Brown Thrashers with which they 

 were associating at the time I found them. I am not at all familiar with 

 Mimas folyglottos, but one feature presented by the specimens captured 

 appeared a little odd. The iris of the female was brown while that of 

 both males was greenish yellow, much like the iris of Oroscoptes monta- 

 nus, but not quite so yellow.— Frank Bond, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



Ank XI. Jnly. 1894 p. 368-69 



