BIKDS OF NUKTII AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 41)3 



Groat Plains and pi-airio districts of central United States and south- 

 central British Provinces; north to Allierta (South Edmonton) and, 

 probabh^, to Manitoba; east to Illinois and western Indiana (Knox 

 County, April ->•»); southward in winter over j^reater part of Mexico 

 (excejit northwestern portion) as fai- as Vera Cruz (Jalapa), Zacatecas 

 (Valparaiso), and eastern Jalisco (Ocotlan, December), and along Gulf 

 coast of United States to western Florida (Tarpon Springs, January 

 to March; Lake Tratiord," February), casually to South Carolina 

 (Mount Pleasant," October 22), North Carolina (Raleigh," August 5), 

 and Virginia (Arlington, « April 29). 



Troglodytes palustris (not Certhia jxilustris Wilson) Swainson and Kiciiardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 319 (Rocky Mts., 55th parallel N. lat.)-— Audu- 

 bon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 500, part; Synopsis, 1839, 77, part; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., ii, 1841, 135, part.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 439, part; 

 2d ed., i, 1840, 496, part.— Hoy, Troc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 312 (Wis- 

 consin). — Kennicott, Tranfs. Ill>!. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 583 (Illinois). — Trippe, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 115 (Iowa). 



(?) Troglodi/tes palustris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1856, 290 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); Tl)is 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 



Cistothonis {Tclmaiodi/tes) palustris Baird, Rep. Pacilic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 364, 

 part (Nebraska; Texas). 



Cistothonis palustris Bauid, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 268, part; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 147, part (mouth of Big Sioux R. ). — Hayhen, Trans. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, 163 (Council Bluffs, low^a; Big Sioux R.).— Blakis- 

 TON, Ibis, 1862, 5 (Saskatchewan); 1863, 67 (near Fort Carlton, Saskatche- 

 wan). — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 327 (Winnipeg and Waterhcn rivers, w. Man- 

 itoba; Saskatchewan). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 725, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 274.— Ridgway, Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 99, part (excl. synonymy, part, and descr.). — Thompson, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 630 (^Manitoba, summer resident). — Scott, 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 117, part (Tarpon Springs, Florida, Dec, Jan.). — Chapman, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 327 (Corpus Christi, Texas, Mar., Apr.).— 

 Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 157, part. — Nutting, Bull. Labr. 

 Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 279 (Chemawawin, lower Saskatche- 

 wan).— Bailey (Florence 31.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 450, part (INIan- 

 itoba; e. Mexico). 



? Cistof horns palustris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 172 (^ City of ^lexico). 



C[_istothorus'] palustris Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 97 (n. e. Illinois). — 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 556, part. 



ICislothorus palustrisl var. palustris Bairv, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 161, part. 



[ Telmatodytes] palustris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87, part. 



"These sijecimens are not quite typical, the brown of the upper parts l)eing darker 

 and the pileum more dusky than in western and Mexican siH-ciiuiTis, as are also 

 some of those in the Florida series. The l)right, "foxy " coloring of the flanks, etc., 

 at once serves to separate them from true T. palustris, and tliey seem to he decidedly 

 referable to the interior form rather than that of the Atlantic coa.><t district. Proba- 

 bly tliey are migrants from the easti'rn margin of tiie range of the subspecies, where 

 the coloration may naturally be expected to incline more or less toward that of the 

 coast type. 



