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Nothing more calls for special mention until we come to Mimus 

 polyglottus. Like its Latin name in both parts, its English and 

 French appellations chiefly refer to its remarkable powers of 

 mimicry, and date far back, for this was one of the most striking 

 of our birds to the new comers. Thus, in the "Collections of the 

 American Antiquarian Society," IV, 24: Artamockes, a bird 

 that imitateth and useth the sounds and tones of almost all birds 

 in the Countrie." We have Mimic Thrush, Afockbird, Mock- 

 ingbird, Moquer or La Merle moquer, and English Mocking- 

 bird (to distinguish it from the "French" Mockingbirds of the 

 Southern States — chiefly Harporhynchtts rufus) . Its sweet- 

 ness of voice apart from mimicry, and its habit of singing fre- 

 quently after sunset or in the moonlight, caused it to be called in 

 the English West Indies, Nightingale, and in the other islands 

 Rosignol. This last word is only a modification of Rosignor, or 

 Lord of the Rose — the Spanish name of the Nightingale; it is i 

 probably of Moorish descent, and has been applied to other t 

 American birds as well as this. The Mexican (west coast) name 

 — , Sinsonte, is also in allusion to the bird's voice. 



The spotted plumage is expressed in the German name Spott- , 

 vogel or Shpotfogel as it is spelled in Pennsylvania. Indian | 

 names at my disposal are two : Tuszvahaya (Florida Seminoles) ; ' 

 and Tshitshikniin (Delawares). 



Bull. N, 0.0. S.AplL XS83. p. 7*J - 76", 



1990. The Thrushes. By Charles D. Oldright, Ljnds Jones, Willard 

 N. Clute, et al. Ibid., pp. 32-43.— Reports by members of the WilsOp 

 Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association, chiefly upon nesting 

 and migration of Mimus pgl^giottos, Galeoscoftes carolinensis, Harpo- 

 rltynchus rufus. Tardus mustelinus.T. fuscescens,^ T. a. fallasii, T. u. 

 a, Merula migratoria. 



1647. In the Haunts of the Mockingbird. By Maurice Thompson. 

 Ibid., No. 32?, Nov., 1884, pp. 620-627.— Reprinted in 'By Ways and Bird 

 Notes,' New York. 1885, pp. S-22. AUanUo :«oa. 



,x ;• n;,.d From tl.o 'Macon, Ga., Telegraph.' H>'d., 

 ,250. The MoCung Bu d. 1 acstruction in the South. 



No. 22, Nov. 27, p- .Sio-^l^^^l''"""- "'^ ' .,,,,;rj 



,6,3. A Tricksy Spirit. By OUve Thorne Miller. ^^^J^'^^ 33^ 

 Nov. , x88s, pp. 676-685.-^//-- polyglottos in captw.ty. MXM<i SftOO. 



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1657. The 'Mockingbird^s Nest. ^yOnvf^hor-^^mWer. Ibid., ^o. 



