SYNONYMY OP SIUEUS MOTACILLA 299 



OQ the west coast of Mexico. Oar knowledge of its natural 

 history has, strange to say in the case of so very common and 

 widely diffused a bird, only very lately been completed by the 

 discovery of its wonderful vocal powers, made independently 

 by Mr. John Burroughs, as well known to naturalists by his 

 delightful sketches of bird-life as he is to others by his essays 

 in the field of general literature, and by Mr. George A. Board- 

 man, whose name is inseparably connected with the culture of 

 American ornithology. 



Aquatic Accentor 



Slarns nieTlns* 



MotacUIa DEevlal, Sodd. Tablenu PE. 1783, 47 (pi. 752, f. 1). 



Siurus naevlUS, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Club, ii. 1877, 39.—Merr. Trans. Conn. Acad. iv. 1877, 20. 



* The third species of this genus has the following synonymy : — 

 Siarns motacilla.— liarge-bllled Accentor, 



Tardus motacUla, Y. OAS. ii. 1807, O, pi. 63 (Kentucky; accurate description and recog- 

 nizable figure) .-Stepft. Gen. Zool. x. 1817, 197.— F. N. D. d'H. N. xx. 1818, 234.— T. 

 Ency. M6th. ii. 1823, 64:), n. 20. 



Seiurns motadlla, Bp. CA. i. 18S0, 306. 



Siurus motaciUa, Ocrues, BulL Nutt. Club, ii. 1877, 33.— Men. Trans. Conn. Acad. iv. 1877, 

 20 (Conuecticnt). 



HeDicoclchla motaciUa, Cab. J. f. 0. 1857, 240 (Cuba).- ffundi. J. f. 0. 1861, 326 (Cuba). 



Turdns Indorlclanus, Aud. OB. 1. 1832, 99, pi. 19 (afterward united it with tioveboracensis). 



Seinrus ludOTlCianus, Bp. CGL. 1838, il.—Bd. BNA. 1858, 262 ; ed. of 1860, pi. 80, f. 2.— 

 Barn. Smiths. Eep. for 1860, 1861, 435 (Chester County, Fa.).— Coues d Prent. Smiths. 

 Eep. for 1861, 1862, 407 (Washington, D. C, common in spring).— Bd. Ebv. AB. 1865, 

 217 (Colima, &a.).—lMwr. Ann. Lye. N. T. viii. 1866, 234 (New York).— Coueo, Pr. Ess. 

 Inst. V. 1868, 271 (Southern New England).— 2W;)j)e, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 183.— Co«es, Pr. 

 Bost. Soo. xii. 1868, 110 (South Carolina).— iaiw, Ann. Lye. N. T. ix. 1808, 94 (Costa 

 Eica).— ». Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, 203 (Costa Eica).— Alien, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 512, 577 

 (Massachusetts).— 2^r»i6. B. E. Pa. 1869, 24 p Phila. ed. Vl — Gundl. J. f. O. 1873, 417 

 (Cuba).— OoKe«, Key, 1872, t06, pi. 2, f. ».—S<soU, Pr. Bost. Soo. xv. 1872, 222 (West 

 Virginia).— CoMM, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, iii.—Purdie, Am. Nat. vii. 1B73, 693.— Snow, B. 

 Kans. 1873, —.—IngersoU, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 238.— (7o««», BN W. 1874, 72.— i3. B. a It. 

 NAB. i. 1874, 287, figs. pi. 14, f. 13.— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 440 (New Eng- 

 land).— ffoiery, Life-Hist. i. 1876, 145.— Jlfijwt, B. N. Engl. 1877, 63. 



Slurus ludOTicianns, Scl PZS. 1859, 363 (Xalapa); 373 (Oaxaca).— S.<«5.Ibis,ii.l860,2;3 

 (Guatemala). 



Seinrus ludOTici nns, Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, 234 (Iowa). 



HeDlcoclclila ludoviclana, Scl.Cat. AB. 1861, 25 (Orizaba).— Sc!. PZS. 1861, 70 (Jamaica).- 

 Albrecht, J. f. 0. 1862, 192 (Jamaica).— Sa!». PZS. 1870, 183 (Veragna). 



Henicoclcbla major, Cab. MH. i. 1850, 16 (Xalapa).— Caii. J. f. 0. 1857, 240 (Cuba). 



Enicocicbla major. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Grire bochequeue, 7. OAS. I. c.,andEM.l. c. 



Warbler Tbrnsb, Steph. L o. ' 



Louisiana Water Ibrusb, large-billed Water Tbrush, Authors. 



Hab. — Eastern United States. North to Massachusetts and Michigan. 

 West to Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas. South through Mexico 

 (the eastern portion at least) and Central America. Cuba and Jamaica. 

 Breeds in its United States range at large. Winters extralimital. Abun- 

 dant in many of the Southern and Western States. Bare toward the north- 

 ern limits cf its range. 



