9g4 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



sidfurascens, D'Orbigny, Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 57, pi. vi. Seiurus gosse, Bon. Consp. 

 1850, .306 (Jamaica). > Antlms I'hcrminieri, Less. Rev. Z. 1839, 101 (Colombia). 

 Otlier localities quoted : Xalapa, Sclater. Guatemala, Sclater & Salvin. Panama, 

 Lawrence. Carthacjcna, Cassin. Santa Cruz (winter), Newton. Cuba, Cab. Ja- 

 maica, Gosse. ; Scl. Venezuela, Scl. & Salv. Yucatan, Lawr. St. Bartholemy, 

 SuND. Veragua, Salv. 



Sp. Char. Bill, from rictus, about the lengtli of the skull. Above olive-brown, with a 

 shade of green ; beneath pale sulphur-3'ellow, 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, G.lo; wing, 3.12 ; tail, 2.40. Bill, from rictus, .6-1. 

 Sexes similar. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America, north to Arctic Ocean and Yukon (west- 

 ward along northern border of United States to Cascade Mountains) ; Fort Bridger, Drex- 

 ler) ; Arizona (Coues) ; whole West Indies ; Southeastern Mexico ; all Central America ; 

 Panama and Eastern South America (Bogota; Carthagena; Brazil). 



A very young bird (22,619, Fort Simpson, August 10) is very different 

 from the adult in coloration. The upper parts are fuliginous-black, each 

 feather with a broad terminal l)ar of pale ochraceous, wing-coverts tipped 

 with the same, forming two distinct l)ands ; streaks lielow as in the adult, 

 but broader and less sharply defined. 



Habits. This species has a general distribution, at certain seasons,, 

 throughout the whole of eastern North America as far to the north as the 

 Arctic Ocean. North of the United States it is also found on the Pacific 

 coast as far south as the Cascade Mountains. In the winter it is quite com- 

 mon in all the West India Islands, in Southeastern Mexico, Central America, 

 Panama, and the eastern part of South America to Brazil. From about lati- 

 tude 43° northward it breeds throughout all North America. Sir John Pdch- 

 ardson met with it at the Carlton House, where it was found frequenting the 

 moist and tliickly wooded banks of the river. These birds made their first 

 appearance in May, and the greater portion soon after disappeared, as if pro- 

 ceeding still farther north to breed. 



Among other memoranda given me by the late JMr. Kennicott was one 

 furnished him by Mr. Lockhart, to the efiect that, at Yukon Pdver, June 21, 

 1859, he had shot a female Water Thrush as she flew from her nest. This 

 contained five eggs, and was concealed under a small ])ile of drift, close to 

 the river, but under large willow-trees. This was not lined with down. At 

 the same locality another nest with six eggs was also obtained. This also 

 was on the ground at the foot of some willows near the water. It was made 

 of moss, and lined with very fine grass. 



All that has been given by our earlier authors as to the habits of this 

 species must be received with more or less uncertainty. The difference be- 

 tween this bird and that known as the Louisiana Thrush has not been suf-' 

 liciently clear to these writers to enable us always to determine which of the 



