406 ORNITHOLOGY. 



229, S 0(1.; siiiiic locality aud date. 7/^.-13^—4^ — 1— A— t|— 3— U- Interior 

 of montb, delicate, ligiit greenish-yellow. 



243, 5 rtr/.; West Huuiboldt Mountain.^, October 8. 7-,\— 13j\— 4^33— ^3— 

 2i| — IJ. Same remarks. 



244, 9 (id.; same date. 7— IL'g— 4/^— 3ii— J— 3— 2}? — 1-^. Same remarks. 

 375, i ail; Tnickee Bottom, December 21. 7-i— 13g— 43 — 3if. Iris, vaudyke- 



browu. 



37(5, <? ad.; same locality aud date. 7j?g — 13^ — 4§ — 3if. Same remarks. 



399, $ ad.; Steamboat Valley, Nevada, January 4, 1808. 7— 135— 43- 3i|. Same 

 remarks. 



416, <? ad.; Car.son City, Nevada, March 5. 7J— 13|— 4i|— 3i|. 



407, $ ad.; Carson City, March 28. 7J — 13J. Same remarks. 



408, 5 ad.; same locality and date. 7J — 13J. Same remarks. 



533, (? ad.; Washoe Vallej', Nevada, Ajiril 25. 7i| — 14. Same remarks. 



862, i juv.; East Humboldt Mouutaius, Nevada, August 6, 1868. 



1103, 9 JHv.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 4, 1869. 



1108, <? ad.; Autelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 5, 1869. 7^— 13|. Bill, 

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



1508, <?.;■«?'.; 7J— 13|. 1509, ^ jw».; 7^— 13i. 1510, 9 juv.; 7—13. 1511, 9 jtiv.; 

 li—Vi^. Parley's Park (Wahsatch Mountains), Utah, August 14, 1869. 



Family ClNCLIDxi] — Water Ouzels. 



CiNCLUS MEXICANUS. 

 Dipper; Watnr Ouzel. 



Ginclus mexicanus, SwAiNS., Phil. Mag., I, 1827, 368.— BAiRD, Review Am. B., 

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

 Orn. Cal., 25.— CouES, Key, 1872, 77; Check List, 1873, No. 10; B. N.VV., 

 1874, 10.— Henshatv, 1875, 159. 



Eydrobata mexicana, Baird, 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 meltiu'j;' 

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

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

 impetuous and the country generally foi-est-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 oii the higher of the intervening ranges. The 

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



