THE WATER-THRUSH. 173 
Besides the familiar woodland chant, there is a rarer ecstacy song given 
at twilight. Of this Professor Lynds Jones says, “I have seen the Oven-bird 
suddenly vault into the air, mounting to the tree-tops on quivering wings, 
then dart back and forth in a zigzag course as swift as an arrow, and finally 
burst into song as he floated gently down. ‘The song seems to swing once 
round a great circle with incredible swiftness but perfect ease, ending in a 
bubbling diminuendo as the performer lightly touches the perch or ground 
with half rigid wings held high.” 
No. 78. 
WATER IHR USE: 
Vs, O. U. No, 675. Seiurus noveboracensis (Gmel.). 
Description.—4dult: Above dark olive-brown; below white, tinged more 
or less with sulphur-yellow, everywhere, except on middle belly, spotted and 
streaked with the color of the back, finely upon the throat and cheeks, 
broadly upon the breast; a dark line through eye; a prominent yellowish, or buffy 
(fulvous) superciliary stripe; cheeks and extreme chin more or less tinged with 
fulvous; bill brown; feet lighter. Length about 5.50-6.00 (139.7-152.4) ; wing 
2.94 (74.7) ; tail 2.14 (54.4) ; exposed culmen .45 (11.4) ; tarsus .82 (20.8). 
Recognition Marks.—Large Warbler size, but most suggestive of small 
sparrow ; superciliary line yellow-tinged, never pure white; sulphur-yellow below 
(never buffy) ; throat spotted. 
Nesting.—Not known to breed in Ohio. Nest, on the ground or in the roots 
of upturned tree; of moss and leaves, lined with fine rootlets and tendrils. Eggs, 
4 or 5, white or creamy white, speckled and spotted or wreathed in the usual 
fashion with reddish browns. Av. size, .77 x .59 (19.6 x I5.). 
General Range.—E astern United States to Illinois, and northward to Arctic 
America, breeding from the northern United States northward. South in winter 
to the West Indies, Central America, and northern South America. 
Range in Ohio.—Common spring, less common, or less noticeable, fall 
migrant. 
THE Water Thrush is a common migrant during the last week in April 
and the first two weeks in May, and requires at this season careful dis- 
tinction from its less common relative, the Louisiana Water Thrush. It is 
found along streams and at the edges of woodland swamps. ‘The more thor- 
