642 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Henicocichla major C'ABANiti, Journ. furOrii., 1857, 240 (Cu])a). 

 Enicocichla major Brewer, Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 

 Seiurus novwboracensis (not Motaeilla noveboracensi.s Gmelin) Audubon, Synopsis, 



1839,93, part. 

 (?) Siunis noveboracensis Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477, part (Medina R., Texas, "all 



the summer," fide Heermann). 

 (?) Seiurus colombianus Lesson, Descr. Mam. et Ois., 1847, 294 (Colombia). 



SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin). 

 WATER-THRUSH, 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain olive; a broad superciliary stripe 

 of l)uff, extending from nostril. to sides of nape; a triangular spot of 

 dusk^' olive in front of eye, and a broad postocular streak of the same; 

 a crescentic mark of light buti'y on lower eyelid; suborbital and auric- 

 ular regions streaked with olive and yellowish or pale buffy; ])road 

 malar stripe and under parts pale yellow (primrose 3^ellow to straw 

 yellow) — I'arely nearly white — the chest, sides, and flanks more or less 

 broadly streaked with dark sooty olive (sometimes nearly black), the 

 lower throat with shorter triangular or wedge-shaped marks, the upper 

 throat usuall}^ with small triangular spots or flecks, of the same; under 

 tail-coverts with concealed portion extensively olive or grayish olive; 

 bill dusky brown, the mandible paler, especially in winter; iris brown; 

 legs and feet clear brown (in dried skins). 



Yoioig^ Jjrst plumage. — Above olive, the feathers with a subter- 

 minal bar of dusky and a terminal bar of bufl', producing a conspicu- 

 ous transversely mottled appearance; wings and tail as in adults, but 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with buff, forming two nar- 

 row bands across wing; superciliary stripe less distinct than in adult, 

 finely streaked with dusky; whole throat, chest, and sides of breast 

 heavily streaked with dusky or dark soot}^ on a pale bufl-yellowish 

 ground, the streaks much less sharply defined than in adults; rest of 

 under parts pale straw or primrose yellow, the sides and flanks mottled 

 or clouded with dusky. 



Adult male.—ljQwgth. (skins), 125.5-1-L2.7 (185.1); wing, 75.4-80 

 (76.7); tail, 45-53.6 (51.3); exposed culmen, 11.9-14 (12.7); tarsus, 

 19.S-22.3 (21.3); middle toe, 12.9-14 (13.5).^ 



AduUfemale.—ljQyigih. (skins), 118.4-138.7 (130.5); wing, 6S.3-75.7 

 (72.6); tail, 45-52.1 (49.5); exposed culmen, 10.9-14.7 (12.7); tarsus, 

 20.3-21.6 (21.1); middle toe, 12.4-13.7 (13.2).' 



Eastern North America; north to Davis Inlet, Newfoundland, and 

 shores of Hudson Bay;^ breeding southward to northern New England, 

 mountains of Pennsylvania (Clearfield, Elk, Cambria, and Lycoming 



^ Nine specimens. 

 ^ Eight specimens. 



^ Breeding birds from the western side of Hudson Bay are intermediate between 

 this form and S. n. noiabilia. 



