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264. (676.) Seiurus motacilla (Vieill.). 56. 

 Louisiana Water-Thrush. 



Synonyms: Siurus motacilla, Sylvia noveboracensis, Turdus 

 noveboracensis, Seirus ludovicianus, Turdus motacilla. 

 ■ Large-billed Water-Thrush, Large-billed Accentor, "Water 

 Wagtail, Large-billed Wagtail Warbler. 

 Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 163, 181 (part). 



This is really the earliest of all the warbler group, but 

 does not get the credit it deserves because its name is not 

 warbler. I have found it at Oberlin the last of March. It 

 is only locally common as a summer resident in the state; 

 in most places it is not common, but can hardly be consider- 

 ed rare. In Lorain county it is pretty strictly confined to 

 the deep stream gorges or to the hills and banks at the lake 

 shore. Somewhere in every stream gorge a pair or more 

 may be found during the summer. Of course the gorges 

 must be wooded, and with a stream flowing at the bottom. 

 This species prefers to remain on the ground, seldom perch- 

 ing in a tree unless disturbed about its nest or young. Its 

 wild song echoes and reechoes in the steep walled gorge, re- 

 calling the untamed spirit of the Red man whose hunting 

 ground this once was. 



The average dates of arrival for this species fall within 

 the first week of April, for southern Ohio, and a week later 

 for Lorain county. The last ones leave the state during the 

 middle of October. 



265. (677.) Geothlypis Formosa (Wils.). 58. 

 Kentucky Warbler. 



Synonyms: Oporornis formosa, Sylvia formosa, Myiodioctes for- 

 mosa,Sylvicola formosa. 

 Kentucky Yellow-throat. 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., 1, 1831, 196. 



Dr. Wheaton says of this warbler, "Rare summer resident ; 

 in particular localities only." It is now fairly common over 

 most of the southern third of the state, and ranges nearly 

 to the lake in the western half, and rarely to the lake in the 



