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TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 91
Our Texas Mocking Bird and Nest
Of all the myriads of Texas him the "Texas Nightingale" or
warblers none is as widespread the "Queen of all Songsters" there
and as popular as our "mocking being but one more singer-the
bird." None can imitate the voice German Nightingale
that can
of other birds and of animals better break a an c e with our Texas
than our Texas warbler; none mocking bird.
of them have been popularized Not only on the open prairie
oftener by bards and musical plains, but nearly equally as often
composers; none oftener caged and our songster is encountered in
raised to delight the human heart the heart of towns and cities, in
with their inimitable song, and parks, gardens, fields, meadows
none, perhaps, have been more and even before our own doors and
THE MOCKING BIRD, QUESEN OF TEXAS SONGSTERS ANT) OTHERS-A TYPICAL PRAIRIE BIRD
SCENE NEAR SAN ANTONIO
(From Nature, By the Writer)
neglected authors in general windows, everywhere the mocking
than our mocking bird. Let's bird makes itself "at home" during
give our "Queen of Texas Songsters summer as well as winter, and
therefore a little space and consid
everywhere they delight the human
eration. soul with their delightful song.
Scientifically the mocking bird At the advance of the cold
is called "Mimus polyglottis"
winter months the majority of
the "multi-tongued songster"-and mocking birds migrate to more tropornithologists
appropriately call ical zones; many, however, also
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/91/?q=menger: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.