JAN 14 1322 
THE HUMMING-BIRD OF THE CALIFORNIA WAIER-FALLS. 545 
The water-falls of the Sierra Nevada are 
frequented by only one bird, the ouzel or 
water-thrush (Cincliis Mexican us, Sw.). He 
is a singularly joyous and lovable little fellow, 
about the size of a robin, clad in a plain 
water-proof suit of a blackish, bluish gray, 
with a tinge of chocolate on the head and 
shoulders. In form he is about as smoothly 
jilum]) and compact as a pot-hole pebble ; 
the flowing contour of his body being inter¬ 
rupted only by his strong feet and bill, and the 
crisp wing-tips, and up-slanted wrcni.sh tail. 
Among all the countless water-falls I have 
met in the course of eight years’ explorations 
in the Sierra, whether in the icy Alps, or 
warm foot-hills, or in the profound Yose- 
