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On August 19, 1901, I saw at Dublin, N. H. (1500 feet above sea-level), 
at the northern base of Mt. Monadnock, a Louisiana Water-Thrush 
[Seiurus motacilla ). Early that morning, as I was lying just awake in 
my open tent among birch and poplar saplings, listening to the chip- 
ping of many early migratory warblers, I heard near by an unusually loud 
and ringing Water-Thrush call. The northern Water-Thrush (S. nove- 
boracensis) is a common migrant here, and even breeds regularly in one 
locality, and, though I was surprised by the loudness of the chip, I had 
no thought of seeing anything but one of these birds. Sitting up in bed, 
I began ‘ squeaking ’ with my lips, and almost instantly the Water-Thrush 
flew to a birch-branch within ten feet o£ the front of my tent, and stayed 
there in full view for fifteen or twenty seconds, while my astonished eyes 
took in its gleamingly white superciliary stripe, widely immaculate throat 
and belly, huffy sides, and dark crown clearly defined against a lighter 
back. I could scarcely have had a more complete and convincing view 
of a bright-plumaged southern Water-Thrush, inasmuch as its large bill 
was the only distinctive point of which I did not manage to record a clear 
image. I hurriedly got up and went to the house for a gun, and was 
delighted to still hear the bird’s ringing chip when I came out armed. 
But though I heard it several times thereafter and twice saw it at a 
distance, it proved extremely shy or restless and soon escaped me com- 
pletely. No doubt this is too important a record to be accepted on such 
insufficient evidence, and I must stand alone in my absolute conviction 
that Seiurus motacilla has wandered to New Hampshire. 
Attk, XIX, July, 1902 , p/>. 3 ? S\\? . 
