MOCKING BIRD. 
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bird • ^ soutli, obtained the name of mocking- 
of first, or brown tbrusli, from its inferiority 
Jintrl'*'?’ called the French, and the other the 
fi'J'fi) — a mode of expression probably 
*" prejudices of onr forefathers, with 
thing French was inferior to every thing 
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and K ’Hocking bird is frequently taken in trap cages, 
taio’e ; 1"?!’®’' management, may be made sufliciently 
’*'“'l>t t 1 ^”^' ^ upper parts of the cage (n hich 
Mi’d 1 H o® of wood) should be kept covered, until the 
^^Pla ® little more reconciled to confinement. 
’‘‘Hise'lr • “* “ uncovered, he ivill soon destroy 
«Ver , “ attempting to get out. These birds, how- 
Perb’ “y proper trisitnieut, may be brought to sing 
tfom'.!’*’ superior to those raised by hand, and cost les.s 
entpj® : The ojiiniou whicli the naturalists of Europe 
j .r" on me a rew oays aj»*o, with twenty- 
sibouf birds, old and young-, ^vhich he had carried 
'enigf, fields witli him for several days, for the con- 
Oth(;j. feeding them nhile engaged in trapping 
Cartvi' carried them thirty miles, and intended 
^orl{ them ninety-six miles liirther, viz. to New 
Out or H’®! that he did not expect to lose one 
^^ofiiiiii. them. Cleanliness, and regularity in 
^0(1 ttf’’ two principal things to be attended to ; 
®se rarely fail to succeed. 
''’’■d is ®‘‘8^®’'"®ss " ’th M-hich the nest of the mocking 
Phia ’’Ought after in the neighbourhood of Philadel- 
*’‘tent r '■oudered this bird extremely scarce for an 
’’OUnd ™uud the city. In the country 
fj. and Newcastle, tliey are very niime- 
^ whence they are frequently brought here for 
1*^’, of Mr Bai-rington, in the paper above referred 
h savc^ still more probable. “ Some nigbtin- 
t!^ keen ** vastly inferior, that the bird-i-atchers will 
P* 2^3 ^ branding them with, the name of Frenchmen ” 
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