PASSERES CINCLIDAE— CINCLUS MEXICANUS. 



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rude structure of coarse sticks, loosely put together, and lined with finer 

 material. The eggs, of a uniform blue color, very similar to those of the 

 common Robin, but lighter. In this respect, therefore, they would seem to 

 differ from all others of the genus, which are spotted, often quite heavily, 

 with different shades of brown. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



799 

 310 

 386 

 39' 

 <335 

 (?) 

 654 

 684 



<?jun. 



9 

 S ad. 



9 ad. 

 9 ad. 



(?) 

 5 ad. 



Mount Turnbull, Ariz. 



Camp Bowie, Ariz 



do 



Sept. 19, 1S73 

 Aug. S, 1S74 

 Aug. 12, 1S74 

 Aug. 13, 1874 

 Sept. 9, 1S74 



(?). IS74 



do 



Sept. 11, 1874 



H.W. Henshaw 



do 



3-92 

 3-9S 

 4.0S 

 3.68 



3 84 

 3. So 



3-77 

 4.0S 



5-75 

 5-25 

 5-73 

 5.0S 

 5.70 

 5-70 

 5-27 

 6.00 



1. 14 

 1. 18 

 1-39 



i-3 2 



1. 26 

 1.30 

 1.2S 

 1. 29 



i-3 z 

 '■3 2 



1.2S 

 i.iS 

 1.25 

 1.29 

 1. 20 

 1.2S 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock.... 



H.W. Henshaw 



do 



do 



Camp Lowell, Ariz 



(?) 



do 



do 



(?) 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 









Fam. CINOLIDAE: Dippers. 



CINCLUS MEXICANUS, Sw. 

 "Water Ouzel. 



Cinclus mexicanus, Swains. Phil. Mag., 1827, 308.— Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 80. — 

 Heerm. P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 44. — Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 18CG, 00.— Bd., Rev. Am. Birds, i, 1804, 00.— Cooper, Birds Gal., i, 1870, 

 25.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 77.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1872, 071 (nesting). — Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zoiil., iii, 1872, 174 (mount- 

 ains of Colorado; Ogden, Utah). — Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 

 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 0.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 97.— Id., An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874.— Id., 

 Au. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 40— Bd., Brew., & 

 Ridg., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 50, pi. 5, fig. 1.— Coues, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1874, p. 10. 



Hijdrobata mexicana, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 229.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1S59, 190 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 

 110 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., 12, pt. ii, 1800, 175. — 

 Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1809, 32 (Montana).— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xv, 1872, 194 (Black Hills). 



The Water Ouzel is a common inhabitant along the swift mountain- 

 torrents of the Rocky Mountains. It was found in several localities in Utah, 

 and was particularly numerous for a long distance on the Provo River, where 

 the stream glides through a deep rocky canon, and at every turn makes 



