270 BIRDS——SYLVICOLIDA), 
Siurus motacilla, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; Revised List, Journ Cin. Soe. 
Nat. Hist, 1, i879, 172; Reprint, 6. 
Turdus moracilla, VIEILLOT, Ois. Am ‘Sept., ii, 1807, 9. 
Turdus ludovicianus, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., i, 1834, 99. ? 
Seiurus ludovicianus, BONAPARTE, Geog. and Comp List, 1838, 21. 
Siurus motacitla, CouUHuS, Baill. Navt. Ciab, i, 1877, 33. 
Very similar to the last; rather larger, averaging about 6, with the wing 3; bill 
especially louger and stouter, over 4, and tarsus nearly 1. Under parts white, only 
faintly tinged, and chiefly on the flanks and crissum, with buffy yellow; the streaks 
sparse, pale and not very sharp; throat, as well as belly and crissum, unmarked ; legs 
pale. 
Habitat, Eastern United States; north to Massachusetts and Michigan; west to Kan- 
sas, Indian Territory, and Texas; scuth to Central America. Cuba Jamaica. 
Common summer resident, but of irregular distribution. Arrives 
about the middle of April or earlier, and departs in August. 
The Large billed Water Thrush is one of the birds which are not uni- 
formly distributed, either when migrating or breeding. In general, it 
may bs said that as we approach the no:thern limit of the range of a 
Species, the individuals representing it become fewer, and, during the 
breeding season, are only to be found in such localities as are preémin- 
ently suited to their taste and wants. This appears to be true in this 
State of the present species, the Yellow-throated, Prairie, and Pine- 
creeping Warblers, White eyed Vireo, Whip-poor-will, and perhaps 
others. When on their migrations they seem to pass rapidly from one 
breeding locality to another, seldom making a stop at intermediate points. 
In the immediate vicinity of this city, | know the Large-billed Water 
Thrush oply as a rare migrant, appearing sometimes as early as April 18, 
and, with the Yellow throated Warblers, the first of the family to arrive. 
They are then found in wet woodlands and aleng the muddy wooded 
banks of streams, never in open places, as is the frequent habit of the 
Smail-billed Water Thrush, nor are they as silent as that species. 
The Large-billed Water Thrush was first introduced as an Ohio bird 
in my list of 1861, on the authority of Mr. John Kirkpatrick, who informed 
me that it was tound in the vicinity of Cleveland. Dr. Kirtland and 
My. Read had confounded the two species. Mr. Langdon gives it as a 
rather common summer resident in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and I 
have seen specimens from Sandusky. My first acquaintance with the 
bird in the breeding season was made June 19, 1875, in the “glen” at 
Yellow Springs. Here I found them abundant, and busily engaged in 
feeding half-grown Cowbirds. I aiterwards found them in the ravines 
above Worthington, in this county, where they were equally abundant, 
