BiBDS OF Indiana. 1081 



The Water Thrush is generally a rare migrant; howeyer, some years 

 in the Wabash Valley one form of it is common. It is a rare summer 

 resident northward, where it breeds. About Chicago they are reported 

 as common every year (Tallman, Blaekwelder). They are rare in 

 the Whitewater Valley, where only a few specimens have been taken. 

 They are rare iu Carroll County (Evennann), Wabash (Ulrey and 

 Wallace), Lake County (Parker), and tolerably common iu 1893 at 

 Greencastle (Earlle). Just how far these records refer to the present 

 species is uncertain. The prevailing form in western Indiana seems to 

 be D. n. notabilis, though Mr. Eidgway has both forms from Knox 

 County. It is probable that the same is true wherever it is reported 

 as common. Over eastern Indiana, and other places where Small-billed^ 

 Water Thrushes are rare, the present species is possibly the most 

 numerous, although notabilis is also found as far east as the White- 

 water Valley. The fact probably is that the species under considera- 

 tion is rare throughout Indiana. Mr. Nelson has reported it breeding 

 near Chicago; Mr. E. C. Alexander, in Wayne County, Mich., and Hon. 

 E. Wes. McBride, in Dekalb County, Ind. 



Prof. P. H. King examined seven of these birds, which had eaten 6 

 diptera, 6 beetles, 3 orthoptera, 1 dragonfly, 1 hair worm, 14 snails 

 and some pedicels of moss (Geol. of Wis., I.,, p. 498). This, possibly, 

 should be under the next species. 



They pass south in August and September. Chicago, August 19 to' 

 September 30, 1896. 



This Warbler, for such it is, some winters remains in favorable 

 localities just south of us, and pushes northward into the lower coun- 

 ties of our State very early in April, the advance guard reaching, our 

 northern borders from April 20 to May 1. They remain from three to 

 four weeks and then pass north. 



They have been taken at Bloomington as early as April 3 (1885), 

 remaining that year until April 21, and the first arrivals in 1886 did 

 not arrive there until April 17. April 3, 1893, it was reported from 

 Greencastle; April 7, 1895, and April 29, 1893, from Lafayette; April 

 18 to May 3, 1896, from Greensburg; April 28, 1896, from Sedan; 

 May 4, 1893, from Petersburg, Mich. About Chicago it has been 

 reported as early as April 20, 1896, and as late as May 15, 1897. They 

 were common at Bloomington the spring of 1885 (Bollman), April 

 17, 1886 (Williamson), and the spring of 1888 (Evermann). Mr. 

 Euthven Deane informs me they were also common the spring of 1888 

 at English Lake. They have been reported tolerably common at 

 Lafayette the spring of 1896 and 1896, and as not common there the 

 springs of 1893 and 1897. Prof. W. P. Shannon reports them toler- 

 ably common at Greensburg the spring of 1896. 



