THE GRINNEUL WATER-THI^JSH. 



ly, as it happened, as Sylzna tiuicgillivrayi, by wliicli specific name ii was long 

 known to ornithnlogisls. Macgillivray was a Scotch natnralist who never saw 

 America, but Tohiiic was at that time a snrgeon and later a factor of "the 

 Honorable the Hudson Bay Com|)any," and lie clearly deserves rememhrance 

 at our hands for the friendly hospitality and cooperation which he invariably 

 extended to men of science. 



No. 80. 

 GRINNKLL'S VVA TKR Tl IRl SI I. 



A. C). V. Xi>. '>75a. Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis Ridgw. 



Description. — .hliilts: .•\bf)vo sootv olivc-hrnwn. singularly uniform; below 

 while or tinged with |)ak' yellow, everywhere (save on ali(loiui.-n. centrally, under 

 tail-covcrts and extreme chin) streaked with sooty olive, the streaks small and 

 wedge-shaped on throat, increasing in size posteriorly on breast, sides and flanks 

 (where nearly confluent on buflfy ground); a superciliary stripe continuous to 

 nostril jialc huffy; a crescent-shaped mark of same shade on lower eyelid; cheeks 

 and auricular region linciy streaked with pale huffy and color of hack. Rill ilark 

 brown above, lighter below; feet [)ale ; iris brown. )'oiiiitj hints are finely barred 

 with bulTy alwve and have two huffy wing-bars; imderparts heavily and indis- 

 tinctly streaked with dusky on pale yellow ground. Length 6.00 ( 152) or over; 

 wing 3.00 (-6) : tail 2.10 (53.3) : bill .33 ( 13.5) : tarsus .85 (21.7). 



Recognition Marks. — Warbler size; plain brown above; white (or pale 

 yellow) heavily streaked with dusky below: a prominent huffy stripe over eye. 



Nesting. — Docs not breed in Washington. Kcst: on the ground or in roots 

 of ui)turncd tree; of moss and leaves, lined with hue rootlets and tendrils. Eggs: 

 4 or 5, white or creamy white, spcckle<l, spotted or wreathed with reddish browns. 

 .'\v. size. .80 X .60 ( 20.3 X 15.2). Scaxoii: May 20-Junc 10; one brood. 



General Range. — Western North .America; breeding from Minnesota, west- 

 ern Nebraska and theiiorth'rn Rocky Mountains north to .Alaska and Siberia 

 ( l\ast Cajie) ; southward during migrations over Western States and Mississippi 

 V'alley, less conunonlythru .\tlantic coast States, to West Indies, Mexico, Central 

 .America and Colombia. 



Ran^e in Washington. — Conjectural — should be not uncommon migrant. 



Authority.- .V. iw: i-honut-iisis. Baird, Review .Am. Birds, 1865, 215 ("Camp 

 Moogie. Washington" 1. 



Specimens. — IN .Alaskan ). I'rov. 



W'lIILh' we have only one record, and that an old one. there is every 

 reason to suppose that this species traverses our borders annually, since it 

 breeds in the middle mountain districts of British Columbia (Rhoads), is 

 abundant in .Alaska (Nelson), and migrates southward thru the western 

 United States (Ridg\vay). The Water-thrush should be lo<iked for in May 



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