376 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



Nest, on the ground, composed of twigs, moss and leaves, and lined with 

 line grass and the fur of some (quadruped. 



Eggs, four or rive, white, tinged with rose color and lightly iiiai-kuil with 

 reddish-brown, chestnut or lilac gray. • 



Southern Ontario is perhaps tlie nortliern limit of this species, 

 and even here it is not generally distril)uted. My first accjuaintance 

 with it "svas made early on a bright ^lay morning, a good many 

 years ago. I had gone out under the mountain, west of Hamilton, 

 and was crossing a deep ravine, which there cut tln-ough the escarp- 

 ment, when I heard farther up the glen the clear, rich, litjuid notes 

 of a bird that was then entirely new to me. Following with 

 some difficulty the course of the stream, which was heard trickling 

 beneath the moss-grown rocks at the bottom of the ravine, I came, 

 ■at length, in sight of the musician. He was on the prostrate trunk 

 of a tree, which, years before. Had fallen and bridged over the chasm, 

 and was then moss-grown and going to decay. On this carpeted plat- 

 form the bird moved about with mincing steps, often turning around 

 with a jerk of the tail, and uttering his characteristic notes with 

 such energy that, for a time, the whole ravine seeined filled with the 

 sound. I have seen the sj^ecies many times since then, but the 

 recollection of our first meeting has lingered long in my memory, and 

 this particular bird still occupies a prominent place in my collection. 



The Large-billed, or Louisiana Water-thrush, as it is now called, 

 is by no means so common a bird in Ontario as the preceding species, 

 but along the southern border of the Province, wherever there is a 

 rock}'^ ravine, its loud, clear notes are almost sure to be heard in the 

 spring, mingling with the sound of the falling water. It arrives 

 fiom the south early in May and leaves in September. 



Gexus GE0THLYPI8 Cauams. 



Subgenus OPORORNIS Bairu. 



GEOTHLYPTS A(iTLTS (Wils.). 



2s."j. Connecticut Warbler. (67S) 



Ahove, olive-green, becoming ashy on the liead : below, fioiii tJic I)rcast, 

 yellow, olive-shaded on the sides; chin, throat and breast, grayish-ash; a 

 whitish i-ing round eye ; wings and tail, unmarked, glossed with olive ; under 

 mandible and feet, pale; no decided mai'kiiigs anywhei-e. Length, .").|, ; wing, 

 2i' ; tail, ± 



