10 TH EE yAD UD U BrOeNe BU Eeia iat aie 
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 
THE NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS in 
our Society are invited to par- 
ticipate in the 16th Interna- 
tional Exhibition of Nature 
Photography, sponsored by the 
Chicago Nature Camera Club 
and the Chicago Natural His- 
tory Museum. Deadline for en- 
tyicsmrs) J andany ol 67800 Oy 
Accepted prints will be exhibi- 
ted in a hall of the Museum 
from February 5 to February 
25, and accepted color slides 
will be projected on two Sun- 
days, February 5 and February 
12 at. 2:30 spine Inathew) ames 
Simpson Theater, where our 
Screen Tour Lectures are pre- 
sented. 
Illustrated at right is one of 
the accepted photographs from 
a previous exhibition. All natu- 
ral history subjects are accept- 
able. One of the judges will be 
an I.A.S. Director, Floyd Swink, 
now naturalist of the Morton “Karly Birds” by W. A. Young 
Arboretum. Others will be John 
Millar, Curator of Botany, and Dr. C. Earle Smith, Jr., botanist, of the 
Chicago Natural History Museum; and two outstanding photographers of 
the Chicago area, J. Harry Boulet, Jr., and J. Musser Miller, A.P.S.A. For 
entry blanks, please write to Paul H. Lobik, Editor, 22W681 Tamarack 
Drive, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. 
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The Mockingbird 
By ANNA C. AMES 
Our CouNtTRY’s Most famous songbird, the Mockingbird, is by legislative 
action the state bird of Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and 
Texas. Although he has a lovely song of his own, his name comes from his 
ability to mock other birds so cleverly that even they are deceived. How- 
ever, ornithologists differ in their views on this subject. The late naturalist, 
Roy Bedichek, declared that the Mockingbirds of Texas do not mock other 
birds, and Roger Tory Peterson agrees that, though northern Mockingbirds 
do mimic other birds, those of the deep South “mimic little, if at all.” 
A. C. Bent, writing of the Mockingbird, quotes a Mr. Simmons, who says 
that in Texas the Mockingbird imitates eight southern birds and “countless 
others; an individual bird frequently has as many as three dozen imitated 
songs.” .Other writers mentioned by Bent add a long list of birds imitated 
