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embracing a central patch of orange red, encircled by gamboge yellow. A dusky space around the eye. Wing coverts with 
two yellowish white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on the quills, succeeded by a broad dusky one. Under parts 
dull whitish. Length, under 4 inches to 4.25; extent, 6.23 ; wing, 2. 25; tail, 1. 80. 
Eab — Northern parts of United States from Atlantic to Pacific; on west coast only noticed on Puget Sound. 
The golden-crowned wren is an abundant bird in the forests, especially during winter, and 
some remain all summer, as I have seen them feeding their young in August at Puget Sound. 
I have not met with its nest, nor have I heard its song. Its usual note was merely a chirp.— C. 
The golden-crested wren is an abundant bird during the winter in the dense forests in the 
vicinity of Puget Sound. On almost any fine day at that season small groups of these active 
little creatures can be found industriously seeking their subsistence in the tops of the tall 
deciduous forest trees of the river bottoms. I have occasionally also seen them in the ever¬ 
greens. 
Some stay during the summer and breed, while the greater number probably repair to the 
more northern portions of the continent, or else to the dense wilderness of the Cascade 
mountains.—S. 
Sub-Family CINCLINAE.—T h e Ouzels. 
HYDROBATA MEXICAN A, Baird. 
American Dipper; Water Ouzel. 
Cinclus pallasii, Bonap. Zool. Jour. II, Jan. 1827, 52.— Ib. Amer. Orn. II, 1828,173; pi. xvi, f. 1; (not the Asiatic, 
pallasii .) 
Cinclus mexicanus, Swainson, Syn. Mex. Birds, in Phil. Mag. I, May, 1827, 368. 
Cindus americanus, Sw. & Rich. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831,173.— Nut-tall, Man. II, 1834, 569.— Add Orn. Biog. IV, 1838 
493; V, 1839, 303; pi. 370, 435.— Ib. Synopsis, 1839, 86.— Ib. Birds, Amer. II, 1841, 182; pi. 
137.— Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, 80; Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VI, iv, 1857. 
Cindus unicolor, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Cindus mortoni, Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 337. 
Cinclus lownsendii, “Audubon,” Townsend, Narr. 1839, 340. 
Eydrobata mexicana, Baird, Gen Rep. Birds, p. 229. 
Sp. Cm.— Above dark plumbeous, beneath paler; head and neck all round a shade of clove or perhaps a light sooty brown 
less conspicuous beneath. A concealed spot of white above the anterior corner of the eye and indications of the same 
sometimes on the lower eyelid. Immature specimens usually with the feathers beneath edged with grayish white; the greater 
wing coverts and lesser quills tipped with the same. The colors more uniform. Length, 7.50; wing, 3. 00; tail, 2.55. 
Eab. —Rocky mountains from British America to Mexico. 
I first noticed the water ouzel on the upper branches of the Columbia near the boundary 
line. I have also seen them a few times on streams near its mouth, and at Olympia, Puget 
Sound. On the 5th July I found a nest of this bird at a saw-mill down on the Chehalis river. 
It was built under the shelving roots of an immense arbor-vitte, which had floated over and 
rested in a slanting position against the dam. The floor was made of small twigs and bare, the 
sides and roof arching over it like an oven, and formed of moss projecting above so as to shelter 
the opening. This was large enough to admit the hand, and the inside very capacious. It 
contained half-fledged young. The old birds were familiar and fearless, being accustomed to 
the noise of the mill and the society of the men, who were much interested by their curious 
habits. They had already raised a brood in the same nest that summer.—C. 
I obtained several specimens of this bird in the Rocky mountains, upon the streams of which 
it is very abundant. In habits it agrees remarkably with those described by Prince C. Lucien 
Bonaparte as belonging to the European species. It uses its wings like the divers while under 
