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Louisiana or Large-billed Water-thrush
Adult--Upper parts warm olive brown; white line over eye; under parts white, tinged with yellow, and streaked with dark brown or blackish; V-shaped spots except on the throat; bill rather large. Length--6.28.
Breeding Range--Southern Michigan, New York, and southern New England, southward to North Carolina and possibly further south.
The nest is made of leaves with mud adhering to them, moss, "grape-grass, and sometimes hair"; it is placed in banks among roots, etc., in moist or swampy woods. The eggs are white to creamy white, speckled and spotted with reddish or yellowish brown and pale lilac. Size--.76 x .62. See Fig. 13, Plate C.
In the neighbourhood of New York the nesting season begins during the first week in May.
In habits these birds resemble the water-thrush, frequenting the streams and rivers and damp woods; their song is remarkably fine, considered by some to be finer than that of any other of our Eastern birds.