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two next largely tipped with white ; wings blackish, the feathers 

 broadly margined with light grayish-cinereous; a triangular spot 

 of yellowish-rufous below the lesser coverts, which is scarcely 

 visible when the wing is closed ; lower parts nearly the same 

 color as the back, but lighter ; vent, and inferior tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish-rusty. Legs and feet blackish-brown. Irides dark hazel. 

 Length 7^ inches. 



Of this singular bird I know nothing, but that it was shot by 

 my friend Captain W. Brotchie, of the Honorable Hudson's Bay 

 Company, in a pine forest near Fort George, (Astoria.) It was 

 the only specimen seen. 



Morton's Water Ouzel. 



Cinclus *Mortoni, (Townsend.) Audubon's Birds of Ame- 

 rica, Vol. IV., pi. 435. Male. 



Upper mandible black; lower brownish-yellow, the point black ; 

 head, and neck above, dark cinereous ; back, rump and tail 

 plumbeous ; wings dusky, plumbeous on the edges, the two 

 greater coverts tipped with soiled white ; tail remarkably short ; 

 eyelids white ; a semi-lunated spot of white over the eye ; throat, 

 breast, and upper portion of the belly, grayish-fuscous, inclining 

 to brown, and slightly banded transversely with blackish ; abdo- 

 men and vent, dull grayish-plumbeous ; inferior tail-coverts, which 

 are nearly the length of the tail, barred transversely with gray 

 and blackish. Irides dark hazel. Legs and feet brownish-yel- 

 low. Length about 5 inches. 



I have honored this species with the name of my excellent 

 friend, Doctor Samuel George Morton, of Philadelphia. It was 

 shot by Captain W. Brotchie, near Fort McLoughlin, on the 

 N. W. coast of America, in latitude about 49'' N. He stated 

 that it was common there, and inhabited, like the rest of its tribe, 

 the rapid fresh water streams. He procured but one specimen. 



Columbian Water Ouzel. 



Cinclus *Townsendi, (Audubon.) Birds of America, Vol. IV., 

 pi. 435. Female. 



Upper mandible black, the inferior edge bright yellow ; lower, 

 yellow, black at the point ; whole lower parts dark grayish- 

 plumbeous, rather lighter on the head ; a large lunate spot of 

 white over the eye, which inclines toward the front ; wings dark 

 plumbeous, the shoulders lighter ; the exterior vanes of the pri- 



