

SPECIES 6. TURD US rfQ UA TIC US. * 



WATER THRUSH. 

 [Plate XXIII. Fig. 5.] 



PEALE'S Museum, JV*o. 6896. 



THIS bird is remarkable for its partiality to brooks, rivers, 

 shores, ponds, and streams of water; wading in the shallows in 

 search of aquatic insects, wagging the tail almost continually, 

 chattering as it flies, and, in short, possesses many strong traits 

 and habits of the Water Wagtail. It is also exceedingly shy, 

 darting away on the least attempt to approach it, and uttering a 

 sharp chip, repeatedly, as if greatly alarmed. Among the moun- 

 tain streams -in the state of Tennessee, I found a variety of this 

 bird pretty numerous, with legs of a bright yellow colour; in 

 other respects it differed not from the rest. About the begin- 

 ning of May it passes through Pennsylvania to the north; is 

 seen along the channels of our solitary streams for ten or twelve 

 days; afterwards disappears until August. It is probable that it 

 breeds in the higher mountainous districts even of this state, as 

 do many other of our spring visitants that regularly pass a week 

 or two with us in the lower parts, and then retire to the moun- 

 tains and inland forests to breed. 



* Prince Musignano asserts that this is the Sylvia noveboracensis, LATHAM, 

 and quotes the following synonymes: MOTACIIXA noveboracensis, GMEL. 

 SYLVIA noveboracensis, LATH. VIEILI. pi. 82. MONTACILLA tigri^a, var. @, 



GMEL. female and young 1 . STLVIA ligrina, var. @, LATH, female and young-. 



STITIA anlhoides, VIEILI,. JVbwv. diet, d'hist. nat. FICEDULA dominicensis fusca, 

 BBISS. female and young. -Fa uvetle tachette de la Louisiana, BUFF. PI. Enl. 

 752, /. 1, a very bad figure. JVeio York warbler, PENW. Arci. Zoo/. LATH. 

 Syn. 



It resembles in habits and appearance, and is we believe, also, the IwrJtts 

 wo(aci//a ^f VIEILT.OT, pi. 65. 



