284 NORTH AMERICAN UniDS. 



siil/urascrns, D'OiinioNY, Sa<,'ia'.s Cuba, 1S40, 57, pi. vi. Sriurns gofifu:. Box. Consp. 

 l^jO, 3»K> ^.laiuaifa). f Antlms Vln nuinuri, Li:s>.s. Ki-v. Z. lJ?;iS«, lol (l'olt)inltia). 

 Otlur loLalitiis (juotcd : Xulapa, ScLATKli. GnaUnnala, SiLAlEli & Salvin. Paiiavw, 

 Lawui NCE. Ciirthatjcnit, Cassix. Sduta Cruz (winter), Nkwtun, Cuht, Cab. Ju- 

 vmicii, (Ji)ssK. ; ScL. Venezuela, ScL. & JSalv. Yucatan, Lawk. at. Bai'tlu)lemy, 

 SUND. rmnjua, t>ALV, 



8i'. CnAi:. Bill, {■n>rii rictu.^, about the lenirth of the skull. Above olive-brown, with a 

 shade ol" jrreeii ; beneath pale sulphur-yellow, brightest ou the abdomen. Region about 

 the basj,' of tin- lower ujandiblc, and a supereiliary line from the base of the bill to the mipe, 

 brownish -yellow. A dusky line from the bill through the eye; ehin and throat fmely 

 spotted. All the remaining under parts and sides of the bo<ly. except the abdomen, and 

 ineluding the under tail-coverts, conspicuously and thickly streaked with olivaceous-brown, 

 almost black on the breast. Length, G.15; wing, 3.12; tail, 2.40. Bill, from rictus, .04. 

 Sexes similar. 



IIau. Eastern Province of North America, north to Arctic Ocean .ind Yukon ^vest- 

 Avard along northern border of United States to Cascade Mountains) ; Fort liridgcr, Dkex- 

 LKi:) ; Arizona (CoL'Es) ; whole West Indies ; Southeastern Mexico ; all Central America; 

 Panama and Eastern South America (Bogota; Carthagena; Brazil). 



A very young bird (22,619, Fort Simpson, August 10) is very difterent 

 from the adult in coloration. The upper parts are fuliginous-black, each 

 feather with a broad terminal bar of pale ochraceous, wing-coverts tijjped 

 with the same, forming two distinct bands ; streaks below as in the adult, 

 but broader and less sharply defined. 



Habits. This species has a general distribution, at certain seasons, 

 tlirougliout tlie whole of eastern North America as far to the north as the 

 Arctic Ocean. North of the United States it is also found on the Pacific 

 coast as far south as the Cascade ]Mountains. In the winter it is (^uite com- 

 mon in all the West India Islands, in Southeastern ]Mexico, Central America, 

 l*anama, and the eastern part of South America to Brazil. From about lati- 

 tude 43° northward it breeds throughout all North America. Sir John llich- 

 ardson met with it at the Carlton House, where it was found fretiuenting the 

 moist and tliickly wooded banks of the river. These birds made tlieir first 

 api)earance in ^lay, and the greater portion soon after disappeared, as if pro- 

 ceedint'' still fartlier north to breed. 



Among other memoranda given me by the late ]\Ir. Kennicott was one 

 furnished him b}^ Mr. Lockhart, to the effect that, at Yukon lUver, June 21, 

 ItSo'J, he had shot a female Water Thrush as she flew from her nest. This 

 contained five eggs, and was concealed under a small pile of drift, close to 

 the rivei', but under large willow-trees. This was not lined with down. At 

 the same localitv another nest with six eg^s was also obtained. This also 

 was on the ground at the foot of some willows near the water. It was made 

 of moss, and lined with very fine grass. 



All that has been given 1)V our earlier authors as to the habits of this 

 species must l)e received with more or less uncertainty. The difference be- 

 tween this bird and that known as the Louisiana Thrush has not been suf- 

 ficiently clear to these writers to enable us always to determine which of the 



