AQUATIC WOOD-WAGTAIL (LOUISIANA WATER THRUSH). 39 



Plumage ordinary, soft, slightly glossy; a few bristles at the base of the 

 upper mandible. Wings of ordinary length; first quill longest. Tail shortish, 

 a little notched, the feathers rather obtuse. 



Bill deep brown above, black at the tip, flesh-coloured beneath. Iris deep 

 brown. Feet and claws brown, tinged with blue. The general colour of 

 the upper parts is dull greenish-brown, that of the under parts yellowish- 

 white. A streak of the latter colour over the eye, from the base of the 

 upper mandible, and another from the base of the lower, curving upwards 

 behind the ear-coverts. Fore-neck and breast marked with sagittiform spots 

 of blackish-brown; sides under the wings streaked with the same colour. 



Length 5f inches, extent of w 7 ings 9^; bill along the ridge ^, along the 

 gap f ; tarsus f. 



The female, as has been said, hardly differs from the male in appearance. 



The Indian Turnip. 



Arum triphyllum, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. iv. p. 480. Putsch, Fl. Amer., vol. i. p. 399. 



— POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. Linil.— AROIDEiE, JllSS. 



Somewhat caulescent; leaves ternate, with ovate acuminate leaflets; spadix 

 clavate; flowers monoecious. The flowers are green and purple, and the 

 roots are used by the Indians as a remely for colic. 



Genus II.— ANTHUS, Bechst. PIPIT. 



Bill of moderate length, straight, very slender, as broad as high at the 

 base, compressed toward the end; upper mandible with the ridge narrow at 

 the base, the notches slight, the tip a little deflected; lower mandible with 

 the dorsal line straight, the edges involute, the tip acute. General form 

 very slender. Tarsus of moderate length, much compressed; toes slender; 

 claw r s arched, extremely compressed, acute, that of the hind toe much 

 elongated. Plumage soft and blended. Wings long; the outer three quills 

 about equal and longest; inner secondaries tapering, one of them nearly as 

 long as the outer primaries when the wing is closed. Tail rather long, 

 emarginate. 



