. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . , verybeautiful, loud, and modulated. It closely resembles that of the Thrasher, but is not soloud and continued. At any rate the Mountain Mockingbird is one of the most valu-able of our singing birds. NAMES: Sage Thrasher, Mountain Mockingbird. — Germ. Salbeidrossel, Gebirgs-Spottvogel. SCIENTIFIC NAMES: OROSCOPTBS MONTANUS BairD, B. N. Am. 1858, 347. Orpheus montanus Towns.(1837). Turd
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . , verybeautiful, loud, and modulated. It closely resembles that of the Thrasher, but is not soloud and continued. At any rate the Mountain Mockingbird is one of the most valu-able of our singing birds. NAMES: Sage Thrasher, Mountain Mockingbird. — Germ. Salbeidrossel, Gebirgs-Spottvogel. SCIENTIFIC NAMES: OROSCOPTBS MONTANUS BairD, B. N. Am. 1858, 347. Orpheus montanus Towns.(1837). Turdas montanus And. 0. B. 1838 p. 437. DESCRIPTION: Adult male and female: Above brownish gray; two narrow white bands on the wings;outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with white. Beneath whitish, more or less tinged with buffy on theflanks and under tail-coverts: the breast and almost the entire under parts marked with triangulardusky spots, largest and most crowded across the breast, smaller and sparse and sometimes absenton the throat and lower belly. Young similar to adult, but above conspicuously streaked with dusky,and spots on lower parts less sharply defined. — Length a little over 8 inches. II. MIMUS POLYGLOTTUS BOIE DIE MOCKINGBIRD. Mimus polyglottvis BoiK. Plate II. Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe ?Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule Pursue thy fellows still with jest and — sophist — songster — Yorick of thy tribe, Thou sportive satirist of Natures school,To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe. Arch scoffer, and mad Abbott of misrule!. For such thou art by day—but all night long Thou pourst a soft, sweet, pensive, solemn if thou in this, thy moonlight song. Like to the melancholy Jacques, complain,Musing on falsehood, violence, and wrong, And sighing for thy motley coat again. WlLDK. pT IS where the great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk, crowned with e
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