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Painted
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Published
1930
Volume
11
Plate
703
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Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos polyglottos
DESCRIPTION
BREEDING
NEST: Built of whatever vegetable material is handy — usually small twigs, grass, leaves, weed stalks, lined with rootlets, moss or cotton! Located in different places, generally in a thicket within 10 or 12 feet of the ground.
EGGS: 4 — 6; bluegreen thickly specked with brown shades.
RANGE
Southeastern United States, north to Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and eastern Nebraska. Casual to Massachusetts, Maine, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Cork Wood
Leitneria floridana
DESCRIPTION
A shrub or small 20-foot tree distributed along Gulf coast from Florida to Brazos river, Texas.