556 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ceous, the latter (often the former also) immaculate ; chest more or less 

 tinged with ochraceous; length 3.75-4.50, wing 1.72-1.90 (1.78), tail 

 1.58-1.70 (1.61), culmen .40, bill from nostril .24-.28 (.25), tarsus .60-.62 

 (.61), Eggs .63 X -48. Hah. Eastern United States and more southern 

 British Provinces, west to Great Plains (to Utah Lake, Utah ?) ; win- 

 tering in Gulf States. 



724. C. stellaris (Light.). Short-billed Marsh Wren. 

 h^, Ujjper tail-coverts and rump rusty brown, sometimes bai'red with dusky, 

 but usually quite plain ; hind-neck usually distinctly streaked with 

 dusky; chest scarcely, if at all, tinged with buff; otherwise like C. stel- 

 laris ; wing 1.64-1.75 (1.72), tail 1.50-1.80 (1.63), culmen .41-.47 (.43), 

 tarsus .65-.70 (.68). Hah. Eastern tropical America, from eastern 

 Mexico (Vera Cruz) to Brazil, Bolivia, etc. 



C. polyglottus (ViEiLL.). Southern Marsh Wren.^ 

 a^. Bill as long as head, the culmen equal to or longer than middle toe, without 

 claw; hind claw longer than the toe ; lower parts pure white medially ; eggs 

 pale chocolate-brown or deeper chocolate, sometimes nearly uniform, but usu- 

 ally finely sprinkled with a deeper shade of the ground-color (the latter 

 sometimes light isabelUi-color). (Subgenus Telmatodytes Cabanis.) 

 i\ Culmen usually decidedly longer than middle toe, without claw ; bars on 

 middle tail-feathers usually indistinct or incomplete ; tail-coverts (above 

 and below) usually without distinct bars, sometimes with none at all ; 

 length 4.25-5.50, wing 1.80-2.12 (1.95), tail 1.60-1.90 (1.80), culmen .50- 

 .61 (.54), bill from nostril .34-.41 (.38), tarsus .70-.80 (.76). Eggs .6Q X 

 .46. Hab. Eastern United States and British Provinces, wintering in 



Gulf States 725. C. palustris (Wils.). Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



6^ Culmen not decidedly, if any, longer than middle toe, without claw (some- 

 times a little shorter) ; bars on middle tail-feathers usually very distinct 

 and continuous ; tail-coverts (upper and lower) usually distinctly barred 

 with blackish ; brown of upper parts appreciably less rusty ; length 

 about 4.50-5.75, wing 1.95-2.22 (2.06), tail 1.80-2.05 (1.92), culmen .48- 

 .55 (.51), bill from nostril .31-.37 (.34), tarsus .68-.78 (.72). Eggs .62 X 

 .49. Hab. Western United States, east to Eocky Mountains (to Great 

 Plains ?) ; south, in winter, over table-lands of Mexico, to Guatemala. 



— . C. palustris paludicola Baird. Tule Wren.* 



1 TJiryothorus polyglottus Vieill., Nouv. Diet. xsiv. 1819, 59. Cistothorus jiohjglottus Pelz., Orn. Bras, 

 1871, 48. 



2 Cistothorus palusfris yat. paludicola Baird, Review Am. B. i. Sept. 1864, 148. 



Note. — The vernacular name is derived from tlie Sjianish word tule, meaning a kind of rush {Scirpiia vali- 

 dus) which in the valleys of California and other portions of the western country forms extensive marshes. 

 These marshes are called tules, pronounced as if spelled too'lays. 



This race was not recognized by the A. 0. U. Committee, but it rests on quite as good a basis as Trog- 

 lodytes aedon parkmanii and several other accepted forms. 



