GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH, OR OVEN-BIRD, 355 
the female tumbles in the path and simulates lameness. 
In this bird, according to Audubon, the legs and feet are 
of a deep bluish brown, and the tail forked. It does not 
appear to be strictly aquatic. The northern bird, also, 
is never heard to sing, and the country in which it 
breeds is unknown. 
The Aquatic Thrush is about 6 inches long, and 9J in alar extent. 
Above very dark olive, with a line of whitish extending over the 
eye, and along the sides of the neck. Below, white, tinged with 
pale yellow ; the whole breast and sides marked with dark brown 
pencil-shaped spots. Bill dusky brown. Legs flesh-colored. Tail 
nearly even. The sexes almost alike in plumage. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH, or OVEN-BIRD. 
( Turdus aurocapillus , Wilson, ii. p. 88. pi. 14. fig. 2. Sylvia auro- 
capilla , Bonap.) 
Sp. Charact. — Yellow-olive; crown brownish-orange, margined 
on each side by a dusky line ; beneath white, the breast spotted 
with blackish. 
This rather common bird, so nearly allied to the true 
Thrushes, is found throughout the forests of the United 
States during the summer, arriving in the Middle and 
Northern States about the beginning of May or close of 
April, and departing for tropical America, Mexico, and 
the larger West India islands early in September. 
The Golden-crowned Thrush, shy and retiring, is 
never seen out of the shade of the woods, and sits and 
runs along the ground often like the Lark ; it also fre- 
quents the branches of trees, and sometimes moves its 
tail in the manner of the Wagtails. It has few preten- 
sions to song, and while perched in the deep and shady 
