BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 497 



7}'.lm<(fo(hjleK pxlnstris CouES, Check List, 1873, no. ol, part; Binln Nortliwent, 

 1874, 34, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 178, part. 



CiMothorns paiustrix, var. paludicola Baird, Review Am. Birds, Sept., 18()4, 148 

 (Shoalwater Bay, Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



{^C'lStothonis pahistrisi var. paludicola Baibd, Brewer, and Kidcway, Hist. X. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 161, part. 



C'istothorus palustris . . . var. j^flt^dirola Hexsh.vw, Orn. Ki'p. AVhei'ler's Surv., 

 1876, 232, FortTejon, California). 



Cistothornif ])aluslris paludicola Gooim, Bull. U. S. Nat. i\Ius., no. 20, 1883, 314. — 

 Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 400, part.— Lawrenxe (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 357 

 (Grays Harbor, Washington). — Oberholser, Auk, xiv, 1897, 193 (synon- 

 ymy; descr. ; crit. ). — Grinnell, Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 49 (Los 

 Angeles Co., California, resident). — Rathbun (S. F. ), Auk, xix, 1902, 139 

 (Seattle, Washington, resident). — Fisher (W. K.), Condor, iv, 1902, 135 

 (Crescent City, California). — Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 

 201 (San Jose del Cabo, San Jose del Rancho, and Santiago, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, autumn and winter). — Bangs, Auk, xix, 1902, 352 (range). 



C[;is(othorus'\ palu.^trls paludicola Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 556, part. 



Clistothontf^l j^[alHs()-is'] paludicola Bailey (Florence M.), Ilandb. Birds W. L^. 

 S., 1902, 450. 



Cistothorus {Telmatodytes) palustris paludicola Ridgw.vy, ^Nlan. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 

 593, part. 



Telmatodytes palustris paludicola Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 170, 215, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 67rf, part.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 80, part. 



Telmatodijtes palustris . . . fi paludicola Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 425, 

 part ( in synonymy ) . 



Telmatodytes palustris, fi paludicola Belding and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1879, 403 (Stockton and Marysville, California). 



T^elmatodytes'} p[alustris^ paludicola Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 279, 

 part. 



TELMATODYTES PALUSTRIS MARIANNE (Scott). 

 MARIAN'S MARSH WREN. 



Similar to T. j). palush'is^ but smaller, and coloration much darker; 

 ]iil('um usually entirely black or with black largely predominating; 

 white .streaks of interscapular region narrower, sometimes almost 

 obliterated; brown of scapulars, rump, etc., darker, '^ the upper tail- 

 coverts (sometimes the whole rump) usually barred with dusky; sides 



«As in T. p. palustris and other conspecific forms (except, apparently, T. p. griseus) 

 there is great variation in the hue of the brown, which is grayer (deep broccoli 

 brown, verging toward olive) in summer, usually deep mummy brown to chestnut- 

 brown in winter, but this variation is not entirely dependent on season, some mid- 

 winter specimens (the types, for example), although in fresh plumage, having the 

 brown of the same olive or broccoli hue seen in worn midsunnner specimens. In 

 view of the great constancy in the hue of the brown in other forms, when specimens 

 of corresponding .season are comj)ared, it i.s difhcult to understand the very great 

 variation in tlie present form, as at present understood. I vitv strongly suspect 

 that in reality two forms are involved in the question, but until additional southern 

 localities are represented by series of specimens taken during the breeding sea.^on, 

 it is scarcely possible to settle the matter. 



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