MOCKING BIRDS. 



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simply swarmed on the low aromatic bushes growing 

 beneath the trees, and indeed all over the island. 



On leaving Blanquilla after this February visit we went 

 straight to Guanica, on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, 

 arriving there after about a twelve hours' passage. Some 

 bush country in the neighbourhood was swarming with 

 another species of mocking bird (Mimus polyglottus), 

 but although this island is only about a hundred and 

 twenty miles to the north of Blanquilla, a note in my 

 diary states that this bird " was not in song or apparently 

 paired." 



