COMMON WATER THRUSH. 285 



Edward Harris and my son John Woodhouse procured a good 

 number of these birds in the months of April and May. They were 

 then migrating along the shores and islands of the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Many of them had dark brown feet and yellowish-white under parts. 

 My friend Dr Bachman has procured the dark-footed bird in South 

 Carolina, and that with flesh-coloured feet in the State of New York. 

 Mr Harris shot one of the former, and Mr Collins another, in the 

 State of New Jersey. 



Watek Thrush, Turdus aquaticus, Wilson, Amer. Ornith. vol. iii. p. 66, pi. 23, 



fig. 5. 

 Seiurus AauATicus, Swainson, Aquatic Accentor, Richards, and SKains. Fauna 



Boreali-Americana, vol. ii. p. 229. 

 Louisiana Water Thrush, Turdus ludovicianus, Audubon, Amer. Ornith. 



Biog. vol. i. p. 99. 

 New York or AauATic Thrush, Turdus noveboracensis, Nuttall, Manual, 



vol. i. p. 353. 

 Sylvia noveboracensis. Lath., Bonap. ?j? ? 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXXXIII. Fig. 7. 



Bill of ordinary length, straight, slender, nearly as broad as high at 

 the base, compressed toward the end, which is acute ; upper mandible 

 with the dorsal line straight, the ridge very narrow, the sides convex 

 beyond the nostrils, the edges direct, with a very slight notch close to 

 the slightly deflected tip ; lower mandible with the angle of moderate 

 length, rather narrow, the dorsal line ascending and almost straight, 

 the back narrow, the sides erect and convex, the edges inflected, the 

 tip rather acute ; the gape-line straight. Nostrils oblong, operculate, 

 open, partially concealed by the feathers. 



Head of moderate size, ovate ; neck rather short ; body rather slen- 

 der. Feet of moderate length ; tarsus a little longer than the middle 

 toe and claw, much compressed, anteriorly with a long plate and three 

 inferior scutella, posteriorly with two long plates meeting so as to form 

 a very thin edge. Toes slender ; the first a little stouter than the 

 middle toe, the inner slightly shorter than the outer, which is united to 

 the third as far as its second joint. Claws of moderate length, very 

 slender, much compressed, moderately arched, acute. 



