. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 74 TUKDID^, THRUSHES. GEN. 2, 3. 2. Genus OREOSCOPTES Baird. 31ountain MocJcinc/bird. Brownish ash, below whitish, shaded behind, thickly spotted with dusky; 8 ; wing ncai-ly 5 ; tail 4. Rocky Mountain region of United States. Aud., ii, 194, pi. 139; Bd., 347. montanus. 3. Genus MIMUS Boie. Moclcinghird. Ashy gray, below white, slightly shaded
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 74 TUKDID^, THRUSHES. GEN. 2, 3. 2. Genus OREOSCOPTES Baird. 31ountain MocJcinc/bird. Brownish ash, below whitish, shaded behind, thickly spotted with dusky; 8 ; wing ncai-ly 5 ; tail 4. Rocky Mountain region of United States. Aud., ii, 194, pi. 139; Bd., 347. montanus. 3. Genus MIMUS Boie. Moclcinghird. Ashy gray, below white, slightly shaded across breast and along sides, wings and tail blackish, former with two white bars, and much white at base of primaries, latter with 1-3 outer feathers partly or wholly white. The $ is known by the much greater extent of wdiite on the primaries, which is the mark of a "singer," as he is called, the $ being songless, in captivity at any rate ; yowifj birds are spotted below the first autumn. 9-10 long; wing about 4; tail about 5 (nearly 6 in var. from California). Southern U. S. to Massachusetts, but not common north of 38° ; thronging the groves of the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Two or three broods are generally reared each season. When taken from the nest, the mockingbird becomes a contented captive ; and has been known to live many years in confinement. Naturally an accomplished songster, he proves an apt scholar, susceptible of improvement by education to an astonishing degree ; but there is a great difference with individual birds in this respect. WiLS., ii, 14, pi. 10, fig. 1; Aud., ii, 187, pi. 137 ; Bd., 344. Pig. 10. Mockingbircl; about \ size. ^ Catbird. Blackish-ash, or dark slate; crown and tail black; under tail overts chestnut. 8-9 long; wing 3|, tail 4. Eastern United States; also Washington Territory, Mexico, Central America and Bermuda. An'abund- ant and familiar inhabitant of our groves and briery tracts, remarkable for it
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