330 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



724. Cistothorus stellaris (Lie MT.). 



Sliort-billed Marsh Wren. 



Troglodytes stellaris LIGHT, in NAUM. Vog. Deutschl. III. 1823, tab. 



ad p. 724. 

 Cistothorus stellaris CAB. Mus. Hcin. I. 1850, 77. 



[B 269, C 52, R 68, C 81.] 



HAB. Eastern United States and Southern British Provinces, west 

 to the Plains. Winters in the Gulf States and southward. 



SUBGENUS TELMATODYTES C AC AN is. 



Telmatodyles CAB. Mus. Hein. I. 1850, 78. Type, Certhia palustris 

 WILS. 



725. Cistothorus palustris (WILS.). 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



Certhia palustris WILS. Am. Orn. II. 1810, 58, pi. 12, fig. 4. 

 CislotJiorus (Telmatodytes) palustris BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 364. 



[B 268, C 51, R 67, 67 a, C 79, So,] 



HAB. Southern British America and the United States, south, in 

 winter, to Guatemala. 



FAMILY CERTHIID^E. CREEPERS. 



GENUS CERTHIA LINNAEUS. 



Certhia LIXN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, nS. Type, by elimination, 

 C. familiaris LINN. 



726. Certhia familiaris americana (BONAP.). 



Brown Creeper. 



Certhia americana BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, n. 

 Certhia familiaris var. americana RIDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 

 1873, l8 - 



[B 275, C 42, R 55, C 62.] 



HAB. North America in general, breeding from the northern and 

 more elevated parts of the United States northward, migrating south- 

 ward in winter. 



