406 ORNITHOLOGY. 



229.^,1(1; s;m:c l.i<-;ility and .liite. 7,'g — 13^ — IJ — l—i — \l — 3— If Interior 

 of moutl), (li'licati- lij;lit firvi-nisli-vcllow. 



243, 9 «</.; Wi'st iluiiiboldt Mountains, October 8. T^'^— ISj'j — ii — SJ— J — J— 

 2}| — If Same remarks. 



244, 9 ail; same (late. 7— 12§— 4^'^ — 3|J— 4—3—2 {f— If Same remarks. 



375, (? ad.; Truckee Bottom, December 21. 7J — 13g — 4^ — 3f|. Iri.s, vandj-ke- 

 brown. 



376, i ad.; same locality and date. 7/jf — 13J — 4| — 3j|. Same remarks. 



.399, S ad.; Steamboat Valley, Nevada, January 4, 18G8. 7— 13^-43— 3|f. Same 

 remarks. 



416, (J ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 5. 7i— 13§— 4||— 3f|. 



467, i ad.; Carson City, March 28. 1\ — 13.f Same remarks. 



468, 9 ad.; same locality and date. 7:^ — 13^. Same remarks. 



533, S ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, April 25. 7!{ — 14. Same remarks. 



862, S jnr.; East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, Auj^nst (», 1868. 



IKKi, 9 juv.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, .June 4, 1869. 



1108, S ad.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 5, 1869. 7$— 13J. Bill, 

 tarsi, and toes, pure black ; iris, brown ; interior of mouth, rich yellow. 



1508, JJMi-.; 7J— 13§. 1.J09, J j)(c.; 7.^—13*. 1510, 9 jur.; 7—13. 1511, 9 j«r.; 

 74— 13f Parley's Park (Wahsatch .Mountains), (Jtah, August 14, 1869. 



FAmLY C1NCLID.E— Water Ouzels. 



CiNCLUS MEXICANUS. 

 Dipper; Water Ouzel. 



Cinclus mexicanus, SWAiNS., Phil. Mag., I, 1827, 368.— Baied, Review Am. B., 

 1864, 60.— B. B. & K., Hist. N. Am. B., 1874, I, 55, pi. V, fig. 1.— Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 2.5.— CouES, Key, 1872, 77; Check List, 1873, No. 10; B. N.W., 

 1874, 10.— Henshaw, 1875, 159. 



Eydrohata mexicana, Baikd, B. N. Am., 1858^ 229 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 

 164. 



This remarkable bird, .so characteristic an element of the western 

 avifauna, was found in all localities where the summer rains or meltin<^ 

 snows on the mountains were sufficient to supply the canons with rushing 

 streams. It was noticed to be abundant only where the torrents were 

 impetuous and the country generally forest-clad, and was therefore most 

 frequently seen on the Sierra Nevada and among the western ranges of 

 the Rocky Mountain system, as the Wahsatch and Uintahs, being rarely 

 observed in the intermediate area of the Great Basin, although it was 

 encountered at intervals on the higher of the intervening ranges. The 

 habits and manners of this bird are most strikingly peculiar, it being one of 



