BIRDS OF 



Nest, on the ground ; composed of twigs, moss and leaves, and lined with 

 fine grass and the fur of some quadruped. 



Eggs, 4 ; white, tinged with rose color and lightly marked with reddish- 

 brown. 



Southern Ontario is perhaps the northern limit of this species, 

 and even there it is not generally distributed. My first acquaint- 

 ance with it was early on a bright May morning, a good many 

 years ago. I had gone out under the mountain, west of Hamilton, 

 and was crossing a deep ravine, which there cut through the 

 mountain wall, when I heard farther up the glen the clear, rich, 

 liquid notes of a bird that was then entirely new to me. Follow- 

 ing, with some difficulty, the course of the stream, which was 

 heard trickling beneath the moss-grown rocks in the bottom of 

 the ravine, I came, at length, in sight of the musician. He was 

 on the prostrate trunk of a tree, which, years before, had fallen 

 and bridged over the chasm, but was now moss-grown and going 

 to decay, and on this carpeted platform he moved about with 

 mincing steps, often turning around with a jerk of the tail and 

 uttering his characteristic notes with such energy that, for a time, 

 the whole ravine seemed filled with the sound. I have seen the 

 species many times since then, but the recollection of our first 

 meeting has lingered long in my memory, and this particular 

 bird still occupies a prominent place in my collection. 



The Large-billed, or Louisiana Water-Thrush as it is now 

 called, is by no means so common a bird in Ontario as the pre- 

 ceeding ; yet along the southern border of the Province, where- 

 ever there is a rocky ravine, its loud, clear notes are almost sure 

 to be heard in the spring, mingling with the sound of the falling 

 water. It arrives from the south early in May and leaves in 

 September. 



GENUS GEOTHLYPIS CABANIS. 



SUBGENUS OPORORNIS BAIRD. 



272. GEOTHLYPIS AGILIS (WiLs.). 678. 



Connecticut Warbler. 



Above olive-green, becoming ashy on the head; below, from the breast, 

 yellow, olive-shaded on the sides ; chin, throat and breast grayish-ash ; a 



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