Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)

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STATUS

Southern Canada to southern Mexico. Polytypic.

OVERVIEW

Species not admitted nationally during the period covered (BOU 1971).

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NOT PROVEN

0). 1851 Kent Near Ashford, killed, about 19th August.

(W. H. Cordeaux, Zoologist 1851: 3277; Harrison, 1953).

[Balston, Shepherd & Bartlett, 1907; Not in BOU, 1971].

History W. H. Cordeaux of Canterbury (1851) in The Zoologist, 1st series, Vol. IX. p. 3277, dated 15th September, 1851, says: 'About the 19th of August, a fine specimen of this bird was killed on a farm near Ashford.'

Balston, Shepherd & Bartlett (1907: 92) say: 'This, like the Migratory Thrush, was no doubt an escaped bird from a vessel or an aviary.'