the \ Ways delno l WHS standing on the dam of a pond looking 



on the bush growth bordering the outlet stream :\t its fall, when i 



the level of mv knees and rem 



oa :'■ - than ton feet awaj 



the brees that it was ft water-thrush, but 



at the first full look that the throat « -.iked and 



v was strikingly white; and that the 



mod onl) at the sides leaving the under- 



unstreaked. It was. therefore, re. as a 



\ . Water-Thrush, There was scarcely a tinge 



. ed to two. The bird soareoly 



so near that. 

 id no need t< No leaf or twig iv mis. 



ally a full front \ twi . l could • a that the 



hill was larger than the bill of the northern species. This distin< 



needed for an unmistakable identifies 

 Whej omething like a five-minute period of time during which the 



bird om all activity and I. so to speak, was photographing 



it upon my retina, I moved :. i slight change in point of view, it 



became aware < - ntly taking wing disappeared among 



the bus 



The only fulb : . record of the Louisiana Water- Thrush in 



• as I am aware, is that i i h\ Mr. 



Hills, Mass . on Aon! 13, 1902, which " re- 

 mained for at loast ton days, b< \ . \ \ 



XIX, 1903 of a bird soon by 



Messrs Fram - Blake on the north bank of the Charles 



shove Waltham in 1903 bears the date of 1 II This record Mr. 

 William Brewster u ( bridge Region, 1 p, 598, is in- 



cline which ho st a-. os l may bo allowed, perhaps, 



an o\ ice in the oonvotion of the identification from 



•. refill observers through much 

 idd at that time. The date of their record, 

 al with thi which I N 



fumis 



I had -fall at noon on mv way farther and had 



be bird, but upon the second visit in the middle of the afternoon it 



i . 

 hasi- ted l visited the spot again three days later, but the water- 



thrush which was then p s 



tlstwasiS 

 The I i Louisiana W ...or- Thrush was rather loss than a mile 



from ' the pair of Blue-winged Warblers in 1909 ^Auk. 



\\\ I. 190 VI W 



