WARBLERS 313 



aquatic insects, worms, and tiny mollusks and crustaceans ; J 

 Warren says it is largely made up of beetles, small worms, 

 larvae, and small shells,** 



GRINNELL WATER-THRUSH: Seiurus novebomcensis 

 notabilis Ridgway. 



State records. — The Grinnell water-thrush — a western race 

 — seems to be fully as common in Alabama as the eastern 

 form. Avery took two specimens at Greensboro, September 

 8, 1892, and August 25, 18,93. Saunders collected one at Hol- 

 iins, April 25, 1908, and noted others of the species there 

 between April 22 and May 3 and at Sylacauga, April 16.* I 

 secured a single specimen at Brewton, October 8, 1908. 



LOUISIANA WATER-THRUSH: Seiurus motaeUla 



(Vieillot). 



State records. — The Louisiana, or large-billed, water-thrush 

 (fig. 24), is a rather uncommon summer resident over the 

 greater part of the State excepting the Coast Belt. It is 

 known to occur in the breeding season at Florence, Stevenson, 

 Sand Mountain (near Carpenter), Guntersville, Woodbine, 

 Greensboro, Barachias, Natural Bridge, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, 

 Scale, Castleberry, and Abbeville. At the two last-mentioned 

 localities it is rare, but the capture of a specimen at Abbeville, 

 June 9, 1911, and observation of several others the same 

 month, both ttiere and at Castleberry, leaves no doubt of its 

 breeding in that region. A bird seen in a swamp near Mobile, 

 July 11, 1913, may have been a migrant. 



The species is an early migrant, arriving usually in March. 

 A very early date is furnished by Saunders, who noted the 

 bird at Woodbine, March 9, 1908. Other dates of arrival are 

 March 13 (1878), at Coosada; March 29 (1891), at Greens- 

 boro; March 30 (1913), at Autaugaville ; April 4 (1890), at 

 Leighton; and April 4 (1914), at Tuscaloosa. McCormack 

 records the last one seen in fall at Leighton on October 12 



tCoues, E., ChicaBO Field, vol. 8, p. 396, 1877. 

 **WaiTcn, B. H., Birds of Pennsylvania, p. 295, 1890. 

 •Saunders, A. A., The Auk, vol. 26, p. 422, 1908. 



