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List of specimens. 
Catal. Sex and Locality. When col- | Whence obtained. Orig. | Collected by— ‘Length. | Stretch Wing. | Remarks. 
No. | age. | lected. | | No. | of wings., | 
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1419} | Carlisle, Pa..... 2.2...) May 1, 1844 3.00 
1433 | OR asnnee dlCscrs scietieisicinsce: |May 3,1844 2.16 
1134 Om ileasees Ovaievis esses + | July 24, 1843 | ee cies Ihisieveipiater!|foaciave sieiall islets swrelsiejsiela 
7542) |, one ence ‘Washington, D:'G....-:|es- «cocsacos javinoeHUttonseseeee| Sesrericucscetesedtees (eatersn snl ceesatcal ceereicel oes 
Sapriocend Cook county, Il Seer August......., R. Kennicott aieleeivisie's louis srceica [te 
rea Union county, Il......| May 6....ccce {esses haamonsatn|| cecetecat | ecaemn elias 
6995 roi | St. Louis, Mo oo May 15,1857) Lieut. Bryan....... W.S. Wood....| seen cece 
8665 Q | Cape Florida...... ..| Sept. 24,1857, @. Wurdemann . Cotesia cotoeene 3.00 
8666 |. 0.00... Isleteleteys Dic ieeweiissciesie sn Sept. 25, 1857-|...... CF Senn aceciad cecon aCoceeec enone ' E 3.00 
8387 Q Independence, Mo..,. | Jan. 20,1857. Wm. M. Magraw... Dr. Cooper..... | | 3.95 | Ins brown; bill brown; 
| | | | feet flesh. 
5287 3 | Medicine river, on Mo..| July 3,1856) Lieut. Warren..... Horners | Dr. Hayden....| 6.25 8.75 2 
4720 roy Vermilion river, Neb...) May 6....... ERED | 6.95 9.00) 3 
4719 | 6 au Cao Beery scion eevseves| 5.87 9.37} 2 
4718 | | May6...... 5.37 9.50 3 
4716 | May'S\ js seste:|cssicins 6.00 9.87 3 
4717 | es| Aprili27iecees 6.25 9.62 | 3.12 | Eyes blue black...... 
474 UH Gal lo <esedue |e 6.50] 9.00] 3.00 |...... doses es oom 
4715 | April 25, 1856 6.00 9.75 | 3.12 | Byes black........06 
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SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS, Nuttall. 
Water Thrush. 
Motacilla noveboracensis, Gmetin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 958. 
Sylvia noveboracensis, Latuam, Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 518.—Viemtor, Ois. If, 1807, 26; pl. Ixxxii.—Bon. Syn. 
1828, 77. 
Turdus (Seiurus) noveboracensis, Nurtati, Man. I, 1832, 353. 
Seiwrus noveboracensis, Bonar. List, 1838.—Ig. Conspectus, 1850, 306.—Aup. Syn. 1839, 93. 
Henicocichla noveboracensis, Capanis, in Schomburgk’s Reise Guiana, IIf, 1848, 666, (Caraccas, Oct. 20.)—Is. Mus. 
Hein. 1851, 16. 
Mniotilta noveboracensis, Gray. 
? Sylvia tigrina, var. 8, Laruam, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 537. 
Turdus aquaticus, Witson, Am. Orn. II, 1811, 66; pl. xxii, f. 5.—Aup. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 284; pl. 433. 
Turdus aquaticus, Bonar. Obs. Wilson, J. A. N.S. IV, 1826, 34, (error. ) 
Sylvia anthoides, Vieittot, Nouv. Dict, XI, 1817, 208. 
Seiurus tenuirostris, Swainson, Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 369.—Gampex, Pr. A. N. Sc. [, 1843, 261. 
? Seiurus sulfwrascens, D’Orsieny, in De la Sagra Cuba, Ois. 1840, 57: pl. vi. 
Sp. Cu.—Bill, from rictus, about the length of the skull. Above olive brown, with a shade of green ; beneath pale sulphur 
yellow, brightest on the abdomen. Region about the base of the lower mandible, and a superciliary line from the base of the 
bill to the nape, brownish yellow. A dusky line from the bill through the eye ; chin, and throat finely spotted. All the 
remaining under parts and sides of the body, except the abdomen, and including the under tail coverts, conspicuously and thickly 
streaked with olivaceous brown, almost black on the breast. Length, 6.15; wing, 3.12; tail, 2.40. Bill, from rictus, .64. 
Hab.—Eastern United States to the Missouri, and south to Guatemala, perhaps to Brazil. 
In this species the second and third quills are about equal, and a little longer than the first, 
which exceeds the fourth. The tail is slightly rounded, the feathers acuminate-acute. The 
feathers of the chin and throat have each a small triangular spot, the middle of the abdomen 
being the only immaculate region. 
In nearly all specimens there is a trace of a median light stripe on the crown, visible at the 
base of ote bill ; sometimes this being more or less distinctly traceable half way along the crown, 
