BIEDS — SYLV1C0LIDAE — SEIUEU8 NOVEBORACENSIS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — Length. 
Stretch 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1419 
1433 
1134 
7542 
6995 
£665 
8666 
3 
9 
o 
Cai lisle, Pa 
May 1,1844 
6.00 
5.75 
9.50 
9.16 
3.00 
2.16 
July 24,1843 
3 
3 
9 
May 15,1857 
Sept. 24, 1857 
Sept. 25,1857 
Lieut. Bryan 
5.75 
6.00 
6.50 
6.25 
6.25 
5.87 
5.37 
6.00 
6.25 
6.50 
6.00 
9.50 
9.50 
10.00 
8.75 
9.00 
9.37 
9.50 
9.87 
9.00 
9.75 
3.00 
3.00 
3.25 
2.75 
3.00 
2.87 
3.00 
3.25 
3.00 
3.12 
8387 
5287 
4720 
4719 
4718 
4716 
4717 
4714 
4715 
9 
3 
3 
9 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
Independence, Mo. ... 
Medicine river, on Mo.. 
Vermilion river, Neb.. . 
Jan. 20,1857 
July 3,1856 
Wm. 11. Magraw. .. 
Lieut. Warren 
83 
Dr. Hayden.... 
Iris brown; bill brown; 
feet flesh. 
May 6 

do 
May 8 
do 

. ...do 
Eyes blue black 
Bald island 
April 25, 1856 
do 
Eyes black 
SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS, Nut tall. 
Water Thrush. 
Motacilla noveboracensis, Gmei.in, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 958. 
Sylvia noveboracensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 518. — Vieillot, Ois. II, 1807, 26; pi. Ixxxii. — Bon. Syn. 
1828, 77. 
Tardus {Seiurus) noveboracensis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 353. 
Seiurus noveboracensis, Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 306.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 93. 
Henicociclila noveboracensis, Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reise Guiana, III, 1848, 666, (Caraccas, Oct. 20.) — Ib . Mus. 
Hein. 1851, 16. 
Mniolilla noveboracensis, Gray. 
? Sylvia tigrina, var. d, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 537. 
Turdus aquaticus, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 66 ; pi. xxii, f. 5.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 284; pi. 433. 
Turdus aqualicus, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, J. A. N. S. IV, 1826, 34, (error.) 
Sylvia anlhoides, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XI, 1817, 208. 
Seiurus tenuiroslris , Swainson, Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 369.— Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 261. 
? Seiurus sulfurascens, D'Orbigny, in De la Sagra Cuba, Ois. 1840, 57 ; pi. vi. 
Sp. Ch. — Bill, from rictus, about the length of the skull. 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 ; wing, 3.12 ; tail, 2.40. Bill, from rictus, .64. 
Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri, and south to Guatemala, perhaps to Brazil. 
In this species the second and third quills are about equal, and a little longer than the first, 
which exceeds the fourth. The tail is slightly rounded, the feathers acuminate-acute. The 
feathers of the chin and throat have each a small triangular spot, the middle of the abdomen 
being the only immaculate region. 
In nearly all specimens there is a trace of a median light stripe on the crown, visible at the 
base of the bill ; sometimes this being more or less distinctly traceable half way along tbe crown, 
