SYLVICOLID.E — TIIK WARBLKRS. 



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is iiiipossihlo to walk up to thorn. I almost always find them on some 

 isliiiid, ill ;i liver, tliat has been overfl(>we(l, and always very near tlie water." 

 Their eir-rs vary in leni^th from .SI to .S7 of an ineh, and in breadth from 

 .0") to .r>ll. Thev have an (>bl(jnij;-oval slii^|>e, tajieriiii; to a i)oint at one end 

 and rounded at the otlier. Their <,n'ound is a clear crystal-wliite, and tliey are 

 more or less marked with lines, dots, and dashes of varyini^ shades of nmber- 

 brown. These markings are more nnmerous around the larL;er end, and are 

 mucli lariier and bolder in some tlian in others, in many Iteiiii,' mere jmints 

 and fine dots, and in sneh cases equally distributed over the whole e<;i,'. In 

 otlicrs a rin^ of larLj*; eontluent blotches is j^rouped around the lar<,'er end, 

 leaviiiLi the rest of the egg nearly unmarked. 



Seiurus ludovicianus, Bonap. 



LOXriSIANA WATEK THBITSH. 



Turd t>fi ludovicianus, Aun. Orn. Ww^. T, 1832, 99, pi. xix. Seiurus ludovicianus, Boy. — 

 Baiui., Binls N. Am. IhiiS, 262, \A. Ixxx, fig. 2; Rev. 217. — Sclatki:, I*. Z. S. l>'>% 

 30:> (Xiilapa) ; 373 (Oaxaca) ; 1J*»)1, 70 (.Taniaita). — Sclatf.k & Salvin, Iliis, 18G0, 

 273 (riuatcmala^. — Samtkls, .579. IfniicDcichla Ivd. S< latkh, Catal. 1801, 2o, no. 

 161 (Orizaba). ? Turdus moff/cil/a, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 18(i7, 9, pi. Ixv (K.n- 

 tucky). Seiurus motacllJa, Ron. 18o0. Ilmicncickht mat. ("ar. .Tour. 18ri7, 240 (C'lilia). 

 — (JrNiti.Acii, Jour. Orn. Iblil, 320. Ucaicocichla major. Cab. Mus. Hein. I6o0 

 (Xalapa). 



iSp. Char. Bill loncfor than the .■^kuU. ITppor parts olive-brown with a shade of green- 

 ish. A conspicii<»us white superciliary lin(> iVoiii the bill to the nape, involving: the upper 

 lid, with a brown one from the bill throiiL'h the eye, wi(lenin<i:l)ehind. Under parts white, 

 with a very faint .><ha(le of pale buff behind, especially on tiie tail-coverts. A dusky niax- 

 ilhiry line; the forepart of breast and sides of body with arrow-shaped streaks of the 

 same color. Chin, throat, belly, and under tail-coverts, entirelv innnaculate. Length, G.33; 

 wing, 3.25 ; tail, *J.40 ; bill, from rictus, .7o. Sexes similar. Young not seen. 



II ab. Eastern Province of United States as far north as Carlisle, Penn., and Michigan; 

 Cuba and Jamaira; Southern Mexico (Colima) to Guatemala. 



Seiurus 



novtboraccnsis. 

 Nutt. / 



Autumnal specimens have a more or less strong wash of ochraceous over 

 the flanks and erissum, and the brown above 

 rather darker and less grayish than in spring 

 birds. 



This sjiecies is very similar to S. novcho- 

 raccnsis, although readily distinguishable by 

 the characters given in the diagnoses. The 

 differences in the bill there referred to are 

 illusti-ated in the accompanying diagram. 



Habits. The Water Tlirush described by Wilson as most abundant in 

 the lower part of the Mississippi Valley, as w^ell as that given by Audubon 

 as the Louisiana Water Thrush, though its position as a genuine species was 

 afterwards abandoned, are undoubtedly referable to a closely allied but ap- 



ikiurus ludorkianus, 

 Bouup. 



