LOUISIANA WATER THRUSH. 245 
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turning sideways of the head. Let the pretty picture be—we leave him to resume in 
peace his morning’s walk, bidding good-speed.”’ 
The true Water Thrush inhabits eastern North America west to Illinois. From 
Wisconsin and Illinois westward and northward we find GRINNELL’S WATER THRUSH, 
Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis Ripew. 
NAMES: Water Turusu, Small-billed Water Thrush, Water Wagtail, Water Kick-up, Bessy Kick-up, and 
River Pink (Jamaica), Aquatic Accentor, New York Aquatic Thrush. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motacilla noveboracensis Gmel. (1788). Turdus noveboracensis Nutt. (1832). 
SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS Bonar. (1838). Turdis aquaticus Wils. (1811). Seiurus naevius 
Coues (1877). - 
DESCRIPTION: ‘Above, olive-brown, with a shade of green; beneath, pale sulphur-yellow, brightest on the 
abdomen. Region about the base of the lower mandible, and a superciliary line from the base of the 
bill to the nape, brownish yellow. A dusky line from the bill through the eye; chin and throat finely 
spotted. All the remaining under-parts and sides of the body, except the abdomen and including the 
under tail-coverts, conspicuously and thickly streaked with olivaceous brown, almost black on the 
breast. 
“Length, 6.15 inches; wing, 3.12; tail, 2.40 inches.... Sexes, similar.” (Ridgway.) 
LOUISIANA WATER THRUSAR. 
Seiurus motacilla BONAPARTE. 
PLaTE XV. Fic. 6. 
NDELIBLE in my recollection will be the days which I spent with one of our most 
efficient ornithologists, closest observers, and ablest judges of the singing of birds, 
Mr. Otto Widmann, of St. Louis. We made excursions in all directions from the city. 
They extended, across the “father of waters,” to Illinois, down to the charming land- 
scape of Montesano Springs, to the woodlands traversed by the Merrimac and Rock 
Creeks, into the grand Tower Grove Park and the celebrated, in America unrivaled, 
Botanical Gardens, popularly known as Shaw’s Garden. On June 25, 1886, we made 
an excursion to the Creve Coeur Lakes, a region very rich in bird-life. The day, though 
tather warm, was favorable. Even before entering the woods, which border these lakes, 
many different bird-songs met our ears. High up in the gigantic tulip and sycamore 
trees Azure and Yellow-throated Warblers, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireos poured 
forth their joyous notes. From the distance sounded the melodious song of the Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak, the sweet e-o-lie of the Wood Thrush and the metallic call of the 
Towhee. In the underwood Catbirds, White-eyed Vireos, Chats, Maryland Yellow- 
throats, Kentucky and Hooded Warblers were singing, while from the willows on the 
shore of the Little Creve Coeur Lake came the sweet lays of numerous Prothonotary 
Warblers. In an old willow stump, covered with poison ivy, a nest with young of this 
beautiful Warbler was found. On one side of the Large Creve Coeur Lake is a beautiful 
forest-crowned bluff, from which can be seen in the distance the broad and turbulent 
