LOUISIANA WATER-THRUSH. 



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Statesville, and Asheville, and with tlieiii similar records from Eubank, 

 Ky., just across the mountains (to the northwest) from Asheville: 



Record of spring arrivals of Louisiana vxitcr-tlirvs]!. 



Year. 



Raleigh. 



Statesville. 



Asheville. 



Enljank, 

 Ky. 



1885 



Apr. 4 

 Mar. 27 

 Mar. 26 

 Mar. 28 

 Mar. 26 

 Mar. 29 



Mar. 27 



1 



1886 





Mar. 28 

 Mar. 27 

 Mar. 24 

 Mar. 24 

 Mar. 25 

 Mar. 27 

 Mar. 25 

 Mar. 29 

 Mar. 30 



1887 



Mar. 28 

 Mar. 24 





1888 





1889 





1890 





Apr. 4 

 Mar. 25 

 Mar. 26 

 Mar. 30 

 Mar. 25 



1891 





1892 



Apr. 1 

 Apr. 8 





1893 





1894 





Average 



1 



Mar. 30 



Mar. 26 



Mar. 28 



Mar. 27 





The following dates of earliest arrival in spring- are more or less in 

 agreement with the foregoing: Gainesville, Fla., March 8, 1887; 

 Greensboro, Ala., April 5, 1888; Shelb}^ Ala., April 4, 1898; Rising 

 Fawn, Ga., March 28, 1885; New Orleans, April 2, 1898. Northern 

 records of average date of arrival are: Frenchcreek, W. Va., April 

 3; Washington, April 11; Beaver, Pa., April 14; Scarboro, N. Y., 

 April 19; Portland, Conn., April 17. Migration up the Mississippi 

 River and westward is not much different from that in corresponding 

 eastern latitudes. At St. Louis the average date of arrival is April 8; 

 at Brookville, Ind., April 16; Petersburg, Mich., April 17, and Lanes- 

 boro, Minn. , April 22. The dates of first arrival at Manhattan, Kans. , 

 are April 18, 1884, and April 15, 1885; at Onaga, Kans., April 12, 

 1891; April 15, 1892, and April 16, 1893. In Texas the species arrived 

 at the Rio Grande on March 31, 1877; in Refugio County, March 17, 

 1899; at Corpus Christi, March 17, 1899; at San Antonio, March 25, 

 1880, and April 9, 1889; and at Gainesville, March 24, 1885, and March 

 24, 1886. 



J^all migration. — The two water-thrushes start south at about the 

 same time, but while noveboracensis occupies nearly three months in 

 making its fall migration, the journey of most of motacilla is rapid, 

 the latest migrants following closely after the first to leave. Southern 

 New England and southern Minnesota are usually finally abandoned 

 in August. The six 3^ears' average of dates of last seen at Renovo, 

 Pa., is September 8, and the latest date September 17, 1894. The 

 fact that no water-thrushes are reported after August from Eubank, 

 Raleigh, or Asheville shows how largel}^ the great body of the birds 

 leave their breeding grounds in the early fall. A belated migrant was 

 seen at Englewood, N. J., October 2, 1885. 



South of the United States the birds reached Jalapa, Mexico, in 

 August, 1884; Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala (6,000 feet), in August; 

 Bonacca Island, Honduras, in September, and Jamaica on September 

 5, 1859. 



