GENUS 32. TURDUS. THRUSH. 
SPECIES 1. T. POLYGLOTTUS. 
MOCKING-BIRD. 
[Plate X. — Fig. 1.] 
Mimic Thrush, Lath. Syn, iii, p. 40, JV*o. 42. — Jlrct. Zool. ii, JV*o. 
194. — Turdus polyglottus, Linn. Syst. i, p. 293, JV’o. 10. — Le 
grand Moqueur, Briss. Orn. ii, p. 266, 29. — Buff. Ois. iii, p. 
325. PI. Enl. 558, fig, 1. — Singing-bird, Mocking-bird, or 
J^Tightingale, Raii Syn. p. 64, JV*o. 5,p. 185, 31. — Sloan, Jam. 
II, 306, JV'o. 34. — The Mock-bird, Catesb. Car. i, PI, 27. — 
Peale’s Museum, JVo. 5288. 
This celebrated and very extraordinary bird, in extent and 
variety of vocal powers, stands unrivalled by the whole feathered 
songsters of this or perhaps any other country; and shall receive 
from us, in this place, all that attention and respect which su- 
perior merit is justly entitled to. 
Among the many novelties which the discovery of this part 
of the western continent first brought into notice, we may reckon 
that of the Mocking-bird; which is not only peculiar to the new 
world, hut inhabits a very considerable extent of both North 
and South America; having been traced from the states of New 
England to Brazil; and also among many of the adjacent islands. 
They are, however, much more numerous in those states south, 
than in those north, of the river Delaware; being generally 
migratory in the latter, and resident (at least many of them) in 
the former. A warm climate, and low country, not far from 
the sea, seem most congenial to their nature; accordingly we 
find the species less numerous to the west than east of the great 
range of the Alleghany, in the same parallels of lattitude. In 
the severe winter of 1808-9, I found these birds, occasionally. 
