Louisiana Water Thrush

Louisiana Water Thrush [now Louisiana Waterthrush]
Turdus aquaticus [now Parkesia motacilla]
Folio edition, plate 19

“Much and justly as the song of the Nightingale is admired, I am inclined, after having often listened to it, to pronounce it in no degree superior to that of the Louisiana Water Thrush. The notes of the latter bird are as powerful and mellow, and at times as varied.”

John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (Edinburgh: A. Black [et al.], 1831), vol. 1, p. 99.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.