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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
Springs (Mcarns), was less than a mile from the New Mexico boundary and, of 
course, would have crossed into the State within the next few hours.—W. W. Cooke. 
Additional Literature.—Pearson, T. G., Educational Leaflet 129, Nat. 
Assoc. Audubon Soc.] 
GRINNELL WATER-THRUSH: Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis Ridgway 
Plate 64 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 5.1-5.8 inches, wing 2.9-3.2, tail 2-2.3, 
bill .5-.6, tarsus .8-.9. Female: Length (skins) 5-5.9 inches, wing 2.8-3.1, tail 1.8- 
2.3, bill .5-.6, tarsus .8-.9. Bill rounded, wings and tail unmarked. Adults: Upper- 
parts sooty olive-brown; line over eye white or very pale yellowish, stripe through eye 
dark brown; underparts usually white, throat finely , and breast broadly , streaked 
with blackish. Young in Juvenal plumage: Like adults but upperparts with feathers 
tipped with rusty and obscurely spotted with black, superciliary yellowish, under¬ 
parts sulphur-yellow, partly washed with rusty. 
Range. —Breeds chief!}' in Boreal Zones from limit of trees in northwestern 
Alaska, northern Yukon, northwestern and central Mackenzie, and Keewatin south 
to northwestern Michigan, northwestern Nebraska, western Montana, and southern 
British Columbia; winters in Cuba, Porto Rico, and Bahamas, and from Mexico 
to Colombia; casual in California and Colorado. 
State Records. —In both the spring and fall migration, the Grinned Water 
Thrush occurs in New Mexico, and was noted September 7, 1903, in Bear Canyon 
near Folsom (Howell); September 4-8, 1903, in the Jicarilla Mountains (Gaut); 
one at Fort Stanton August 30-September 1, 1908 (Tricks); [at Silver City one was 
taken September 1, 1918 (Kellogg)!; one at Shiprock in 1907 (Gilman); and one near 
Roswell, September 17, 1902 (Hollister). 
Two specimens were noted May 6, near Silver City (Hunn). [At Lake Burford 
one was seen May 23 and 25, 1918 (Wetmore); in Santa Fe two stayed from late in 
May till about the middle of June, 1927 (Jensen)d—W. W. Cooke. 
General Habits. —Like the Oven-bird, the Water Thrushes are 
walkers, but, instead of frequenting dry, leaf-carpeted woods, they 
spend a large part of their time exploring the banks of streams or 
pools. Their songs, given from the tree tops, are loud, wild, and 
ringing. 
On their northward journey, in the spring of 1928, two of these 
delightful birds stopped over for about three weeks in Mr. Jensen’s 
garden in the heart of Santa Fe, where the river banks afforded them 
congenial hunting grounds. 
MACGILLIVRAY WARBLER: Opordrnis tblmiei (J. K. Townsend) 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 4.6-5.4 inches, wing 2.4-2.6, tail 2.1-2.5, 
bill .4-.5, tarsus .8-.9. Female: Length (skins) 4.6-5 inches, wing 2.1-2.3, tail 
1.9-2.4, tarsus .8-.9. Adult male in spring and summer: Head and neck bluish 
slate, darkening to black on lores, and to blackish on throat and chest where the feathers 
are broadly tipped with grayish white; eyelids marked with white; back, wings , and 
tail plain olive-green , without white bars or patches; lower underparts lemon yellow , 
darkening on sides. Adult male in fall and winter: Like summer male but feathers 
of crown and hind-neck tipped with brownish, and throat more widely tipped with 
grayish. Adult female spring and summer: Like summer male but feathers of 
