BIRDS—SYLV1C0LIDAE—SEIURUS 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 
of wings-. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1419 
A 
6.00 
9.50 
3.00 
1499 
O 
May 3,1844 
* 
5.75 
9.16 
2.16 
1194 
¥ 
July 24,1843 
7542 
6995 
A 
May 15,1857 
8665 
O 
o 
Sept. 24,1857 
5.75 
9.50 
3.00 
8666 
v • 
6.00 
9.50 
3.00 
8387 
Q 
Independence, Mo.... 
Jan. 20,1857 
Win. M. Magraw... 
83 
Dr. Cooper..... 
6.50 
10.00 
3.25 
Iris brown; bill brown; 
feet flesh. 
5287 
July 3,1856 
6.25 
8.75 
2.75 
4720 
6.25 
9.00 
3.00 
4719 
O 
May 11 ...... 
5.87 
9.37 
2.87 
4718 
¥ 
A 
5.37 
9.50 
3.00 
4716 
o 
A 
May 8 ....... 
6.00 
9.87 
3.25 
4717 
o 
A 
April 27 ..... 
6.25 
9.62 
3.12 
4714 
o 
■7\ 
6.50 
9.00 
3.00 
4715 
o 
April 25,1856 
6.00 
9.75 
3.12 
o 
SEIUEUS NOVEBORACENSIS, Nut tall. 
Water Thrush. 
Motacilla noveboracensis , Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 958. 
Sylvia noveboracensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 518.— Vieillot, Ois. II, 1807, 26; pi. lxxxii.— Bon. Syn. 
1828, 77. 
Turdus (Seiwrus) noveboracensis, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 353. 
Seiurus noveboracensis, Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 306.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 93. 
Henicocichla noveboracensis, Cabanis, in Schomburgk’s Reise Guiana, III, 1848, 666, (Caraccas, Oct. 20.)— Ib . Mus. 
Hein. 1851, 16. 
Mniolilta noveboracensis, Gray . 
? Sylvia tigrina, var. /?, 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 aquaticus, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, J. A. N. S. IV, 1826, 34, (error.) 
Sylvia anthoides, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XI, 1817, 208. 
Seiurus tenuirostris, 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.—B ill, 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. 
Hah. —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 hill; sometimes this being more or less distinctly traceable half way along the crown, 
