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Genus SIUKIJS, Swains. 



Siurus auricapillus (Linn.). 



(Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Seiurus aurocapillus, Coues, Birds N.- West, p. 70 (1874) ; Baird, Breiver 



8r Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 280 (1874). 

 Siurus auricapillus, Salv. ^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 144 



(1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 339 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, JSand-l. v. p. 112 (1906). 



The eggs of the Golden-orowried Water-Thrush are of a very broad 

 and blunt oval shape and but very slightly glossy. They are white, 

 spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end where the 

 markings are more or less confluent and form a cap, with pale rufous, 

 reddish-brown, lilac-red and purplist-grey, aU these colours being 

 usually combined on one egg. They measure from "78 to -85 in 

 length, and from -6 to -65 in breadth. 



6, North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. North America. Crowley Bequest. 



2. North America (T. M. Brewer: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Chester Co., Pennsylvania ( C. J. Princeton University, N.J. 

 Pennock). [E.]. 



3. Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 29th W. Radclifie Saunders, Esq. 



May. [P.], 



Siurus motacilla ( Vidll.). 



Seiurus ludovicianus, Baird, Brewer ^ Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 287 



(1874) ; Coues) Birds N.- West, p. 72 (1874). 

 Siurus motacilla, Coues, Birds Color. Valley, p. 299 (1878) ; Salv. 8f Godm. 



Bioh Centr.-Am^r., Aves, i. p.l47 (1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



X. p. 342 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Mersamml. p. 89 (1899) ; Sharpe, 



Handr-l. v. p. 112 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Louisiana Water-Thrush are inseparable from 

 many of the eggs of S. auricapillus. They measure "8 by "GS. 



1. North America {Nehrhkirn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Raleigh, North Carolina, 14th May. W. Radclifie Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Siurus noveboracensis (Omd.). 



Seiurus noveboracensis, Ross, Canad. Nat. vii. p. 146 (1862) ; id., Nat. 

 Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 279 ; Coues, Birds N- West, p. 71 (1874) ; Baird, 

 Brewer ^ Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 283 (1874). 



Siurus noveboracensis, Salv. ^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Am£r., Aves, i. p. 145 

 (1881) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 112 (1906). 



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