WARBLERS 551 



Plumage of adults : upper parts deep olive brown, darker on crown ; prom- 

 inent white line over eye ; below white, tinged with buffy, and washed with 

 buflfy on sides of throat and flanks ; streaked with black below except on 

 throat and middle of belly. Immature plumage : very similar but feathers 

 above browner, the wing coverts tipped with dull rusty; streaks below 

 fainter and more olive brown. Wing 3.20 ; tail 2.14. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, breeding north to Minnesota and Con- 

 necticut, southern Ontario, southern Michigan and southern Minnesota ; 

 wintering in West Indies, southern Mexico and Central America. 



County Records. — Oxford; one taken at Norway in 1865 by Irving Frost, 

 (Stearns, N. E. B. L., p. 159). 



There remains only this one record to substantiate the 

 occurrence of this species as an accidental visitor to Maine, the 

 record near Waterville by Prof. Hamlin being withdrawn, 

 (Chadbourne, Auk 3, p. 278). This species is unknown to 

 me. Mr. Minot states that its habits are very similar to those 

 of the ordinary Water Thrush, it being equally fond of wood- 

 lands in the neighborhood of water in which it wades and jerks 

 its tail much like the related species. 



A set of eggs in my collection was taken by Judge J. N. 

 Clark at Old Say brook, Connecticut, May 15, 1883. The 

 nest is described as built into the side of a mass of roots 

 and mud turned up by a maple tree which had blown over in 

 a swamp beside a brook. He adds " This is the third year 

 I have taken a set from the same nest," so it is evident that 

 the species sometimes if not always resorts to the same locality 

 or nesting site. The nest is described as composed of old wet 

 leaves, lined with grass and hair. The nest contained five 

 eggs of this species and two eggs of the Cowbird, which latter 

 had seemingly been laid by the same individual bird. The 

 Water Thrush's eggs measure 0.84 x 0.65, 0.80 x 0.61, 0.81 x 

 0.64, 0.79 X 0.63, 0.82 x 0.65 and the Cowbird's eggs measure 

 0.84 X 0.65, 0.86 x 0.65. The eggs are white, rather evenly 

 speckled all over with chestnut and lilac gray, but with a ten- 

 dency for the markings to be heavier about the larger ends. 

 Other types of eggs are said to be boldly blotched, rather 

 than speckled. Four to seven, but more generally five eggs 

 are laid. 



