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on the west coast of Mexico. Our knowledge of its natural 

 history has, strange to say in the case of so very common and 

 widely diffused a bird, only very lately been completed by the 

 discovery of its wonderful vocal powers, made independently 

 by Mr. John Burroughs, as well known to naturalists by his 

 delightful sketches of bird-life as he is to others by his essays 

 in the field of general literature, and by Mr. George A. Board- 

 man, whose name is inseparably connected with the culture of 

 American ornithology. 



Aquatic Accentor 



V 



Siurus iiievius* 



Motacilla nsevia!, Bodd. Tableau PE. 1783, 47 (pi. 752, f. 1). 



Si urns naevius, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Club, ii. 1877, 32. Merr. Trans. Conn. Acad. iv. 1877, 20. 



* The third species of this genus has the following synonymy : 

 Siurus motacilla. Large-billed Accentor. 



Turdus motacilla, V. OAS. ii. 1807, 9, pi. 65 (Kentucky ; accurate description and recog- 

 nizable figure). Steph. Gen. Zool. x. 1817,197. F. N. D. d'H. N. xx. 1818, 234. V. 

 Ency. Meth. ii. 1823, 64:5, n. 20. 



Seiurus motacilla, Bp. CA. i. 1850, 306. 



Siurus motacilla, Coues, Bull Nutt. Club, ii. 1877, 33. Merr. Trans. Conn. Acad. iv. 1877, 

 20 (Connecticut). 



Henicocichla motacilla, Cab. J. f. 0. 1857, 240 (Cuba). Qundl J. f. 0. 1861, 326 (Cuba). 



Turdus ludovicianus, And. OB. i. 1832, 99, pi. 19 (afterward united it with noveboracensis). 



SeiurilS ludOVicianuS, Bp. CGL. 1838, 21. Bd. BNA. 1858, 262; ed. of 1860, pi. 80, f.2. 

 Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 435 (Chester County, Pa.). Coues <& Prent. Smiths. 

 Hep. for 1861, 1862, 407 (Washington, D. C., common in spring). Bd. Rev. AB. 1865, 

 217 (Colima, &c.).Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866, 284 (New York). Coues, Pr. Ess. 

 Inst. v. 1868, 271 (Southern New England). Trippe, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 183. Coues, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 110 (South Carolina). Lawr. Ann. Lye. KT. ix. 1808, 94 (Costa 

 Rica). v. Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, 293 (Costa Rica). Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 512, 577 

 (Massachusetts). Turnb. B.E. Pa. 1869, 24; Phila. ed. ll-Gundl. J. f. O. 1872, 417 

 (Cuba). Coues, Key, 1872, 106, pi. 2, f. 8. Scott, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 222 (West 

 Virginia). Coues, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 421. Purdie, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, C93. Snow, B. 

 Kans. 1873, .Ingersoll, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 238. Coues, BN W. 1874, 72. B. B. < E. 

 NAB. i. 1874, 287, figs. pi. 14, f. 13. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 440 (New Eng- 

 land). Gentry, Life-Hist.i. 1876, 145. Minot, B. N. Engl. 1877, 83. 



Siurus ludovicianus, Scl PZS. 1859, 363 (Xalapa); 373 (Oaxaca). S. < Ibis, ii. 1860, 273 

 (Guatemala). 



Sriurus ludovici nus, Trippe, Pr. Bost, Soc. xv. 1873, 234 (Iowa). 



HeBicocichla ludoviciana, Scl.Cat. AB. 1861, 25 (Orizaba). Scl. PZS. 1861, 70 (Jamaica). 

 Albrecht, J. f. 0. 1862, 192 (Jamaica). Salv. PZS. 1870, 183 (Veragua). 



Henicocichla major, Cab. MH. i. 1850, 16 (Xalapa). Cab. J. f. 0. 1857, 240 (Cuba). 



Enicocichl* major, Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Grive hochequeue, V. OAS. 1. c. f and EM. 1. c. 



Warbler Thrush, Steph. L c. 



Louisiana Water Thrush, Large-hilled Water Thrush, Authors. 



HAB. Eastern United States. North to Massachusetts and Michigan. 

 West to Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas. South through Mexico 

 (the eastern portion at least) and Central America. Cuba and Jamaica. 

 Breeds in its United States range at large. Winters extralimital. Abun- 

 dant in many of the Southern and Western States. Rare toward the north- 

 ern limits cf its range. 



