TURDID.E — THE THRUSHES — CINCLUS. 



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and notched ; the commissural edges of the bill finely nicked. Feet large and strong, the 

 toes projecting considerably beyond the tail ; the ehnvs large. Lateral toes equal. Tail 



C. Mexlcanus. 



yery short and cyen ; not two thirds the wings, which are concave and somewhat falcate. 

 The first primary is more than one fourth the longest. 



Cinclus Mexicanus, Swainson. 



THE AMERICAN DIPPER ; WATER-OUZEL. 



Cwdns Pnlhsii, Box.u'AiiTE, Zool. Jour. II. Jan. 1827, 52. Ib. Amcr. Oni. II. 1828, 17.3 ; pi. 

 xvi. f. 1 (not the Asiatic I'allasii). — Cinclus Mexicanus, Swainson, Syn. Mex. Birds, in 

 Phil. Mag. 1, May, 1827, .368. — Baird, Rev. N. Amcr. Birds, 1864, 59. — Cinclus Ameri- 

 canus, Sw. &RiCH.,F. Bor. Am. II. 1831, 173. — Nuttall, Man. II. 1834, 569. — AuD., 

 Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 493 ; V. 1839, 303 ; pi. 370, 435. Ib. Birds Amer. II. 1841, 182 ; 

 pi. 137. — Neweeruv, ZooI. Cal. and Or. Koutc, 80; Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VI. iv. 1857. 

 — Heermann, X. vi. 44. — C. Mortoni and Townsendii (AuD.), Townsend Nair. 1839, 

 .337, .346. 



Hijdrobata Mi-Ticana, Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Bird.s, 229. — Cooper and Suokley, XII. iii. 

 Zool. of W. T. 175. 



Sp. Ch.\r. Above dark plumbeous, beneath paler ; head and neck all round a shade of 

 clove, or perhaps a light sooty brown ; less conspicuous beneath. A concealed spot of 



■white above the anterior corner of the eve, and indications of the same sometimes on the 

 lower lid. Immature specimens usually with the feathers beneath edged with grayish 

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