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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Locality. 



Ft. Steilacoom.W.T. 

 Simiahmoo, W. T. 

 Columbia River. 

 Fort Tejou, Cal. 



When 

 Collected. 



Mar. 18.54. 

 Dec. 22, '.ifl. 

 Jan. 27, '56. 



Received from 



Dr. Suckley. 

 A. Campbell. 



Collected by 



Dr. Kennerly. 



CISTOTHORUS, Cabams. 

 Cistothorus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 77. (Type Troglodytes stellaris, 

 Light., t^wiu) — Telmatodytes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 78.- 

 (Type Certhia palustris, Wilson.) 



a. Cistothorus. 



Cistothorus stellaris. , 



Troglodytes stellaris, " Licut." Naumann, VSgel Deutschlands, III, 1823, 

 724 (Carolina). — Cistothorus stellaris, Cab. Mus. Hein. 77. — Baikd, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 365,— Sclatek, Catal. 22, no. 142 (in part). 



Troglodytes brevirostris, Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 436. — Avd. Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834, 427, pi. 175.— Ib. B. A. II, 1841, 138, pi. 124. 

 Ilab. Eastern province of United States. 



(No. 3,073, Georgia.) Total length, 4.40 ; wing, 1.75 ; tail, 1.75, its gradua- 

 tion, .70 ; exposed portion of 1st primary, .65, of 2d, 1.06, of longest (measured 

 from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.25 ; length of bill from forehead, .45, 

 from nostril, .29; tarsus, .65 ; middle toe and claw, .61 ; hind toe and claw, 

 .55 ; claw alone, .26. 



Cistotl&orus elegans. 



Cistothorus elegans, Sclatee & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 

 Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



I have not a very good series of specimens before me, although 

 they seem to indicate that the C. elegans of Sclater & Salvin is really 

 distinct from the northern bird, and that these authors have been 

 liasty in re-combining them. If not different species they at least 

 are well-marked varieties. The bill of elegans is considerably 

 stouter and larger than that of stellaris, and the tarsi decidedly 

 longer — the birds themselves being of much the same size. On the 

 back the white streaks do not reach so far back (nearly to the rump 



