. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . Fig. 177. Fig. 178. Northern Water-Thrush. Louisiana Water-Thrush. to be told by tlie lack of streaks on its its name suggests, it is the more southern of WORM-EATING WARBLER 337 the two, and so the common one in the southernUnited States. Doctor Mearns gives a very sympathetic descrip-tion of this interesting bird in his notes on theHudson Highhmds. Even a casual allusion tothis little bird, he says, recalls, to the mind ofthe collector, a bright jncture of clear mountainstreams, with their falls and eddies, their dams ofrock
. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . Fig. 177. Fig. 178. Northern Water-Thrush. Louisiana Water-Thrush. to be told by tlie lack of streaks on its its name suggests, it is the more southern of WORM-EATING WARBLER 337 the two, and so the common one in the southernUnited States. Doctor Mearns gives a very sympathetic descrip-tion of this interesting bird in his notes on theHudson Highhmds. Even a casual allusion tothis little bird, he says, recalls, to the mind ofthe collector, a bright jncture of clear mountainstreams, with their falls and eddies, their dams ofrocks and fallen tree trunks, their level stretchesflowing over bright, pebbly bottoms, with mossybanks and rocky ferneries, and their darting min-nows and dace; for only in such wild localitiesis the Water Wagtail at home. There you willsee it sitting upon the stones, close beside thefoaming water, expressing its pleasure at its sur-roimdings by constantly repeating its single runs about (never hopping) over the stonesand moss, gleaning along the
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