. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . nd, who transmitted it, with his other rare birds, toMr. Audubon. Female. — Length 8^ inches, the wing 4£. General color dullbrownish-grey ; edge of the wing dull white ; basal part of the pri-maries pale yellow, of the secondaries ochre-yellow ; secondaries witha faint patch of light brownish-grey on the outer web toward theend ; middle tail feathers greyish-brown, the rest blackish brown, theouter with an oblique white space ; the next with a terminal spot ofwhite ; below paler ; lower tail and wing-coverts b
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . nd, who transmitted it, with his other rare birds, toMr. Audubon. Female. — Length 8^ inches, the wing 4£. General color dullbrownish-grey ; edge of the wing dull white ; basal part of the pri-maries pale yellow, of the secondaries ochre-yellow ; secondaries witha faint patch of light brownish-grey on the outer web toward theend ; middle tail feathers greyish-brown, the rest blackish brown, theouter with an oblique white space ; the next with a terminal spot ofwhite ; below paler ; lower tail and wing-coverts broadly tipped withdull white, some of the inner wing-coverts also white. MIMUS. (Boie.) MOCKING THRUSH. With the bill elongated and considerably curved through-out ; first quill very small, 4th and 5th longest. In thesethe voice is powerful and eminently melodious, and theydisplay usually a talent for mimickry. By the uniformityof their haunts, they live apparently paired for severalseasons, and evince more sagacity and intelligence thanany other musical birds hitherto THE MOCKING BIRD. (Mimus polyglottus, Boie. Turdus polyglottus, Lin. Wilson, ii. p. 10. fig. 1. Audubon, pi. 21. [a spirited group and nest attackedby a Rattle Snake.] Orpheus polyglottus, Swainson. , No. 5288.) Spec. Charact. — Cinereous; beneath whitish; tips of the wing-coverts, primaries at base, and lateral tail-feathers, white ; tailcuneiform. Tins unrivalled Orpheus of the forest, and naturalwonder of America, inhabits the whole continent, fromthe state of Rhode Island to the larger isles of the WestIndies, and continuing through the equatorial regions, isfound in the southern hemisphere as far as Brazil. Noris it at all confined to the Eastern or Atlantic states. Italso exists in the wild territory of Arkansa more than a 3G4 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. thousand miles from the mouth of Red River; and I havesince seen it in the scanty forests of Upper California. Itbreeds at the di
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