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184. SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOVEBORACENSIS 



(Gmelin) . 



Water-thrush. 



"Observed in autumn migration. Rare." (1891c). 



No. 688. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 19, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



185. SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOTABILIS (Ridgway). 

 Grinnell's Water-thrush. 



The two Hale County specimens listed below are re- 

 ferable to this form. 



No. 991. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 3, 1892. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 1061. Female. Greensboro. Aug. 25, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



186. SEIURUS MOTACILLA (Vieillot). 



Louisiana Water-thrush. 



"Rare. A specimen in my collection was taken on 

 June 30; another captured in April gave evidence that 

 the bird was breeding. That taken in June being well 

 within the breeding season, cannot be considered a mi- 

 grant, while the functional activity of the ovary of the 

 latter example proved that it was a breeding female." 

 (1891c). 



No. 44-(?). Female. Greensboro. No other data. 



187. OPORORNIS FORMOSUS (Wilson). 



Kentucky Warbler. 



"Common. Summer resident. Breeds." (1891c). 



"April 10, 1893. The Kentucky warbler was heard 

 singing yesterday and again today. His monotonous 

 'Tweedle ! Tweedle ! Tweedle !' proclaim his arrival and 

 also his intention of rearing a family at some early pe- 

 riod. This warbler is common in Hale County but his re- 

 tired habits make it not an easy task to study his manner 

 of nidification. He is very shy, affecting the dense cover 

 and undergrowth bordering some stream of water, and 

 rarely leaving the ground to fly into the trees 'till he is 

 either seeking a mate or wishes to exhibit to his admiring 

 companion that he is what his name indicates : Formosa 

 or beautiful. Then his 'Tweedle ! Tweedle ! Tweedle !' re- 

 sounds overhead, as he flies from tree to tree. He re- 

 turns from winter quarters about the first week in April 



