. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 1/6 BIRDS OF AMERICA dusky or grayish on outer web; second, with outer web mostly blackish, the inner web mostly white; third, blackish or dusky, with about half of the terminal and basal portions white; a very indistinct stripe over eye of pale gray; eyelids, grayish-white; lores, dusky; sides of head, grayish, indistinctly streaked witli whitish; space below the eyes and cheeks, dull white, usually faintly barred or transversely flecked with grayish or dusky; chin and throat, dull white, margined along each side by a dusky streak; chest and sides
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 1/6 BIRDS OF AMERICA dusky or grayish on outer web; second, with outer web mostly blackish, the inner web mostly white; third, blackish or dusky, with about half of the terminal and basal portions white; a very indistinct stripe over eye of pale gray; eyelids, grayish-white; lores, dusky; sides of head, grayish, indistinctly streaked witli whitish; space below the eyes and cheeks, dull white, usually faintly barred or transversely flecked with grayish or dusky; chin and throat, dull white, margined along each side by a dusky streak; chest and sides of breast, pale smoke-gray, passing into a more buffy hue on sides and flanks, the under tai!-coverts, pale buff; abdomen and center of breast, white ; bill, black. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Composed of twigs, grasses and weeds, lined with fine rootlets, moss, and sometimes cotton: placed in many different locations but usually in a deep bramble thicket, or hedge; as a rule they are located within ten feet of the ground, never on it, and have been seen built fifty feet above the earth. : 4 to 6, bluish-green heavily freckled with several shades of brown. Distribution.— liastern United States; northward, regularly (but locally), to Maryland, southern Ohio, southern half of Indiana and Illinois, Missouri, etc., irregularly to Massachusetts, southeastern New York (Long Island, etc.). New Jersey, Pennsylvania, northern Indiana and Illinois, and Iowa, sporadically to Maine, Ontario, southern Wisconsin (breeding), and southern Minnesota; breeding and resident throughout its range, e-xcept where occurring accidentally; southward to southern Florida and along the Gulf to eastern Texas, and to the Baliamas; introduced into Bermuda (1893). The Mockingbird stands unrivaled. He is the king of song. This is a trite saying, but how- much it really means can be known only to those where, apparently, he listened and took mental notes of the performance, giving the next day, a week later,
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