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264. (6%6.) SErURUS MOTACILLA (Vieill.). 56. 
Louisiana Water-Thrush. 
Synonyms: Siurus motacilla, Sylvia noveboracensis, Turdus 
noveboracensis, Seirus ludovicianus, Turdus motacilla. 
Large-billed Water-Thrush, Large-billed Accentor, Water 
Wagtail, Large-billed Wagtail Warbler. 
Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 163, 181 (part). 
This is really the earliest of all the warbler group, but 
does not get the credit it deserves becatise its name is not 
warbler. I have found it at Oberlin the last of March. It 
is only locally common as a summer resident in the state; 
in most places it is not common, but can hardly be consider- 
ed rare. In Lorain county it is pretty strictly confined to 
the deep stream gorges or to the hills and banks at the lake 
shore. Somewhere in every stream gorge a pair or more 
may be found during the summer. Of course the gorges 
must be wooded, and with a stream flowing at the bottom. 
This species prefers to remain on the ground, seldom perch- 
ing in a tree unless disturbed about its nest or young. Its 
wild song echoes and reéchoes in the steep walled yorge, re- 
calling the untamed spirit of the Red man whose hunting 
ground this once was. 
The average dates of arrival for this species fall within 
the first week of April, for southern Ohio, and a week later 
for Lorain county. The last ones leave the state during the 
middle of October. 
265. (677.) GEOTHLYPIS FoRMOSA (Wils.). 58. 
Kentucky Warbler. 
Synonyms: Oporornis formosa, Sylvia formosa, Myiodioctes for- 
mosa,Sylvicola formosa. 
Kentucky Yellow-throat. 
Audubon, Orn. Biog., 1, 1831, 196. 
Dr. Wheaton says of this warbler, “Rare summer resident ; 
in particular localities only.” It is now fairly common over 
most of the southern third of the state, and ranges ‘nearly 
to the lake in the western half, and rarety to the lake in the 
