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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. 25 ; wing, 2. 25 ; tail, 1.80. 
Hub. —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 probaby 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 MEXICANA, Baird. 
American Dipper; Water Ouzel. 
Cinclus pallasii, Bonaf. 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. 1, May, 1827,368. 
Cinclus americanus, Sw. & Ricu. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831,173.— Nutt all, Man. II, 1834,569.— Aud. 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. 
Cinclus unkolor, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Cinclus mortcmi, Townsend, Narrative, 1839, 337. 
Cinclus townsendii, “Audubon,” Townsend, Narr. 1839, 340. 
Bydrobata mexicana, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 229. 
Sp. Cii.—A bove 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 covertsand lesser quills tipped with the same. The colors more uniform. Length, 7. 50; wing, 3. 00; tail, 2. 55. 
Bab. —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-vitas, which had floated over and 
rested in a slanting position against the dam. The floor Avas 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 
