Th^'y }'ot€n£ OrtUthologist. 



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Young Ornithologist. 



A Monthly devott-d to the promotion of the 

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It is the fault of the printer, not the 

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In our next issue we shall publish sev- 

 eral interesting articles, one of which 

 will be "The Care and Arrangement of 

 Birds' Eggs." 



Mr. Davie's new Egg Check List will 

 not be issued until February. We will 

 give a detailed description in our March 



Several of our subscribers have written 

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.Mr. T. D. Perry informs us that Mr. 

 Geo. Noble, of Savannah, Ga., found a 

 nest containing young Ground Doves on 

 the loth of October. r885. 'I'liis w.is 

 nnusnallv late nestint". 



THE WATEB, THRUSH. 



(SIUNUS N.'KV1U.S.} 



This species, though not numerous, is, 

 however, generally met with in all suit- 

 able localities of Ontario, irom the early 

 days of May until the hist of September. 

 Its favorite habitat is low marshy woods, 

 where pools of stagnant water remain 

 throughout the summer season, and 

 where the under- wood is not den.se; along 

 the margins of muddy creeks and among 

 the grasses that border ponds and lake- 

 lets. In general its habits are solitary, 

 and there seldom is more than one of 

 them seen at the same time or place, and 

 it always shuns the presence of man as 

 soon as it becomes aware of his approach, 

 and rarely is it known to visit human 

 habitations, villages or cultivated 

 fields. Its notes, though pleasant and 

 cheery, are not remarkable for either 

 their melody, power or continuance, be- 

 ing only the repetition of a few warbling 

 notes, while its tones of alarm and dis- 

 approbation, are a sharp "chip" repeat- 

 ed in an angry voice when the environs 

 of its nest are invaded, thus revealing 

 to the ornithologist a secret that might 

 otherwise remain unknown, for its nest- 

 ing place is generally well consealed 

 and the deep, chilly water and tangled 

 under-wood of its surroundings are not 

 often penetrated at the nesting period 

 except by the Indian hunter, the student 

 of nature or the oological collector, who, 

 aware of its nesting habits, is in quest 

 of its eggs. Its food appears to consist 

 almost wholly of those species of insects 

 that Inhabit the stagnant, muddv waters 

 where it makes its summer home, and 

 which it finds on the margins or floating 

 on the water, and to procure which it 

 often wades up to its breast in water, 

 and when standing on a half-sunken log 

 or running along the margins of {)Ools 

 the hinder-part of the body is con- 

 stantly moving up and down with a 

 wagging motion like that of the Sand- 

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