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NAME - Mockingbird ** A . 0 . U.NO . -703 



(Mimus polygl ottos) 



DATE - May 23, 1933 



NO. - ■ 5- ~ '^t ^ - WMB^^ yt':^^ 



INCUBATION - Fresh 



1.00 x 0.74 0.99 x 0.73 



SIZES - 0.98 x 0.72 0.99 x 0.72 



1 .00 x 0.73 



SITUATION - Straddling several large trunks 

 of Virginia Creeper which had formed a dense 

 entanglement on a wire fence not far from the 

 Clubhouse of the Lonesome Pine Country Club, 

 this bird had fashioned its bulky nest of 

 twigs (including generous thorns!), grasses, 

 rootlets and weed stems. The lining consisted 

 fine rootlets and grasses, as well as some 

 moss. The dimensions of the nest were 

 Outside diam. : 8" Inside diam. : 3i" 

 Height : 4" Depth : 2" 



The five fresh, blunted oval, 

 bluish green, slightly glossy eggs were heavil 

 freckled and splotched with shades of brown. 



Approximately seven miles from 



Big Stone Gap, Va. in Powell's 



Valley 



Northern Mockingbird 



A.O.U. Checklist 1983 



